Critical review on our culture show video

 After about a lesson looking at how to work a camera and how to use mise en scene, sound, lighting, camera work, composition and angles, we then looked at the Sony A1 camera on our next lesson.

We learnt how to white balance the camera, if we didn't do that we would end up having a blue or orange haze on all our footage. Not good.

We also looked at the focus, manual and auto, and the exposure we looked at these so that for the exposure we wouldn't allow too much light into the camera and create a bright image and we looked at the manual and auto focus it because it can give your video a unique element and add a professional touch to a simple video

We also looked out how directors/camera operators  and photographers use lines, horizontal, vertical and diagonal to give a different sense to the scene.

We looked at looking space where the subject is looking into a empty space, talking, facing, looking or thats what the audience can see.

And we looked at motion space, where the camera shows an empty space on the side where the subject is moving/walking, and different heights to give a sense of emotion.

We looked at all of these and then looked at a culture show program.

We began planning our own culture show in a group, three people in a group, we used a story board and we made a script.

Two people from the group then went off to film and interview whilst the other one looked at how to edit on final cut pro.

When the camera man and interviewer came back with the footage we transfered it to the macs and began editing.

After that lesson our next lesson we began adding finishing touches like music.



This is where we used the razor blade tool, we used the razor blade tool to cut footage where we needed to add effects or cut into the footage where there was a mistake.

These are the browser, viewer and canvas boxes.

The browser is to find effects, the viewer is to view everything you have done, and canvas is where the footage comes up that you took when you first started transferring.

This is the timeline, where you add the footage and audio, and where you use the razor to cut the footage or the audio where it needs to be cut.




The way we could improve the final product is adding better music more effects,and a longer video this is because the music we used doesn't really go with our footage we basically just found one that sounded good and applied it, and by adding more effects we can improve it with transitions between scenes, and by making the footage longer we can draw people in more as ours is only about 3 minutes where we could of made it longer and improved it by interviewing more than one person.