Lecture 24/03/09

Haven't blogged for a couple of weeks, but have been so busy.

Adam, Sam, Lauren, myself were present in the lesson. Members of the group left the lesson for filming and editing.

Today was the big day. We were filming our Top Gear project, which would run alongside Lauren's travel feature. I teamed up with Adam and took the train from Guildford to Farnham, Sam teamed up with Lauren to drive from Guildford to Farnham, and Liz teamed up with her friend Keith to take the bus from Guildford to Farnham.

I got equipment off of Alan from our department and set off to Guildford. Adam and I set up our equipment on the platform and practiced 'piece to camera' shots. We decided to take a casual approach to our filming and speech, so we filmed ourselves waiting for the train; this turned out to be successful, as we found some funny moments.

Unfortunately, we were asked not to film on the train, but it didn't stop us getting some sneaky peaks of us getting on and off of the trains.

When we finished our filming, we went back to the Uni and started editing our film. This was really difficult, as we hadn't edited film in over a year. We weren't defeated though, and within an hour, Adam and I were watching our own little film from our journey.

We've looked at alternatives on how to put the film onto our website. We think that using YouTube wouldn't look right on our website, so we thought that using a sharing network called Vimeo would benefit us.

Next week, we're going to look at every ones footage and add it to the website. We are also going to start uploading the content.