Voice Recording

So after realising that I wasn't allowed to use the original music by Sia for the dance, I decided to record my friend singing the song in a recording studio. So, today myself and my friend Charlotte spent 1h 1/2 recording the song. I am really happy with the out come and excited to insert it into my short film.
Here are some pictures of todays recording.

Updated short film

This is my updated short film which I showed my target audience at the showing. This is still just a draft as I have corrections and I need to add in my tittles and credits.
After showing this, I realised I need to change my music as I have used copyright as it isn't a music video. However, I can overcome this problem by using a friend to sing the song for me and then I can edit to the dance. This is what I will be doing next.

Short film showing

Last week myself and my class mates invited about 15 people from our target audience to come watch our short films and get their opinions. 

We gave them a review sheet where they could fill in their responses to my short film and any feedback. This was very useful and also encouraging as lots of people thought that my short filming was good and liked the moving storyline. 

Here, are the results from everyone's feedback forms, which are rated from 5 being the best and1 being the worst. 

I also put the results in a pie chart to show the average numbers I was rated. 

Overall, I am very pleased with this and glad I showed my target audience my short film, because I now have corrections to sort out to make it better. 

Reviews for my short film from Isadora SPRATLING

My recent rough cut

I have spent some time putting my shots together and doing a bit of editing. It is too long at the moment and I will have to cut a lot of clips down as some of them are too long but this is the rough outline of my film.
I also will be taking out all the sound and placing my voice over the top then adding the song over the top of the dance so there is better quality of sound.

Difficulties I have overcome

Today, was a productive lesson. I first started going through my blog and checking through the mark scheme to see where I could improve my research and over all improve my blog. However, I then went to go on the laptop where I have my work and saw the laptop kept turning off. It turns out that the hard drive had died with all my work on it. This was a stressful moment, before I realised that luckily I had only just uploaded my work on YouTube the day before for "just in case"! I spent the next 20 minutes looking for my rough copy on YouTube, as it wouldn't show up due to it being on private and not completing the upload process. I used the internet to try and find out why this was happening and found out that I needed to go to computer manager on my home channel page, which I couldn't find. After a while of searching I clicked on 'creator studio' and found it!

Obviously, I wont be able to use the laptop, so I will work on the desktop Apple Mac and once I have filmed the dance on Saturday I will then be able to continue to edit on this.

Rough cut of my short film

Here is a rough cut of my short film at the moment. All of these shots are from the first day of filming. I haven't yet added in any of the voice over or sound as I want to get all the editing done before. I have also left blank screens for the parts where I haven't yet filmed. This is 3:53 in length so far without all the tittles and the dance scene. I am therefore confident that I will manage to make a 5 minute short film. Overall, i am pleased of how it looked so far and excited to film the next part and start editing.

Technical Difficulties

In the lesson today, I  have to overcome some technical difficulties as the computer I was editing on, I could no longer use, so I therefore used a memory stick to export onto the laptop. However, the clips wouldn't link to final cut pro, so after some time, I exported my edited clips so far on the computer to the highest quality and then put it onto my laptop. Even though this took a long time to do, I learnt in the process as it was new to me and I used google to look up things I didn't understand or know what to do. Now I am ready to carrying on with my editing.