Kate Film Oxford - The Edit

So, started the edit this week on mine and Sarah's tattoo film.  We used one of the great edit suites at Film Oxford. We hadn't looked at the film we'd got before this, we didn't now what to expect. We weren't expecting great sound quality as the studio was quite echoie plus there was allot of back ground noise with the buzzing of needles and thrash metal music playing!  These were the problems that we discovered on the day of the shoot so we set a separate interview room where we could speak with people away from the other noise. We weren't sure how well this was going to work and didn't feel that confident.

  We were pleasantly surprised however when watching back the footage, the sound was good and the quality of the picture was okay too.  With our minds put at rest we cracked on with the editing process. Now I'm no expert and Sarah's never done any film editing so we knew we just had to crack on using the best of my knowledge, it wasn't the fear of making editing decisions that made us nervous, it was using the Adobe software!  Actually once I'd got it open and began, the course I had taken at Film Oxford all seemed to come flooding back and we managed successfully to import all the footage, name it and begin our time line. Well done to us!It was actually quite exciting to see what we had and how we could piece it together to make a hopefully fun and interesting short. 

  The hard part really starts on our next editing session with the time line having to really take shape. We have 2 hours of film and we aim to make a 3 or 5 min short so we've got our work cut out, quite literally!  It's interesting how when you see what footage you have a film takes shape in your head. Obviously before we started the film we had an idea of the style we wanted and it looks very much like that is what we shall achieve, but until you see what you've got it's hard to say for definite how the film will look. We had some great ideas that came to us during watching the footage so we should be fine. It's very addictive you know you could sit there staring at the screen for hours and hours if you're not careful.  We intend to go in again next week to continue so watch this space.

  In the mean time still busy back at college, 2 work heavy modules for my last term at Ruskin finding very difficult to fit in with the kids and all.  Need to really focus can't afford to balls it up on my last term. I finish in July God knows what I'm going to do then. If anyone has any ideas or wok offers, don't be shy!

Kate at Film Oxford.....been on shoot

Hi, I've been away for a week or so, the Easter hols, kids off school blah blah bah, just getting back into the usual routine.

Been on the second day of shooting in a tattoo studio, already done a day a few weeks back. My friend Sarah, (a good friend whom I've met through Ruskin) and I decided to have a go at making a short film. Her son was going to have a tattoo and having discussed the idea of a film in a tattoo studio saw this as the perfect opportunity to go along with a camera. We've got a couple of hours of footage including tattoos being done, interviews with tattoo artists and a tattoo remover. Hopefully we'll be able to put an interesting short together with what we have.

Faced the usual problems sound, lighting pinning people down to chat to. Of course there's a few things that we would do differently next time on the shoot but it's all a learning process. Enjoying the experience that's the main thing and it's definitely confidence building. Hope to start the edit next week, I know this is a long process but I'm excited to see what we can put together. Will keep you posted....quite literally!

Back to college this week for my final term, can't say I'm looking forward to it, in my head I've left already. Not being very academic it's not a place where I thrive, the placement term has been my best term.  Going to be a very busy 10 weeks with course work, college, kids, and film making. Wish me luck!