Looking back on the day there wasn't really anything that went wrong from a personal point of view. And overall the day seemed to run pretty smoothly. I arrived at 7:45 and went straight to the stores to meet Leila, where we waited for her so we could get the kit, and move it to the correct rooms. Once all the kit had been put in the rooms i went over to the big draw room to set up the cameras and make sure they were all in the correct format etc (VGA not Jpeg, as VGA is a smaller file size, therefor easier/quicker to edit/export, and even though this obviously means a loss in quality per frame, when running at 6FPS or higher it isn't going to make a noticeable difference). I then spoke to Chloe and the guys doing the shoot out about bringing over the tapes, and organised who was going to, That was the last thing i needed to check on before heading over to the main house to welcome the students and watch the introductions.
The students arrived around 20 minutes late which i think somewhat rushed the introductions, but alas Chloe's intro went well and the 'Epic Intro video' followed. This didn't go down as well as i think the majority of us would have liked, receiving very few laughs. Although at the same time they had only just come through the doors so we shouldn't really have expected much more from them. But the video its self i was really happy with, i think regardless of its reception, it did the job of breaking the ice and showed the students we were up for a laugh, which may have eased them in to the upcoming activities. I left soon after the Introductions to stock up on food for lunch as i was going to be editing for the majority of the day.
During the first activities I floated between the rooms and tried to get a look at each activity in progress, spending slightly more time at the shoot out to try and make the edit easier and quicker by having some idea of the shots captured. Once the first activities were nearing a close i made my way to the big draw and waited for the SD cards, which i then ran over to the gatehouse to start editing. The editing process panned out really well overall, and i was able to edit the stop motions really quickly using Quicktime 7. Which meant that by the time Ross had ran over the shoot out tapes, i was almost finished with the stop motions. So i just started logging and capturing the shoot out whilst i finished exporting the Big Draw's. The Shoot out edits were relatively easy, and mostly just a case of finding the best take from each shot, and putting it on to the timeline, however there were a few cases where it was slightly more challenging than this. for example the first group i edited had done all there shots, and then gone back and filmed close ups at the end, so it wasn't all in chronological order. Another issue was continuity in some of the takes, but we just had to disregard this and work with what we had. Another thing that really added to the finished product was gun noises, and the theme tune from 'The Good the Bad and the Ugly' Which Mike was able to find. We quickly dropped this in to each edit and edited the gun noises to sync with the action.
I repeated this process 3 times, as the footage came through from the more recent groups. On the last Shoot out we were under quite a lot of pressure to get it finished, and as Tom was finished with filming the shoot outs, he came over to help. This was great as he was able to edit together the last shoot out, while myself and James exported the ones we had already edited. This also gave me a chance to put everything we had edited that day on to Tim's (the students lecturer) memory stick so he could distribute it to the students once they were back at college. I think although this wasn't planned in advance, it helped us out as it saved time, and if we had had to transfer all the projects on to individual memory keys we might have over ran.
Once we'd exported all the media we ran over to catch the guest speakers, who were very inspiring and just as helpful to us as the students. Once they were finished we showed what we had edited on a projector. The footage came out alot darker through the projector, and looking back i wish we had done a test run to discover this. Although it looked fine on the monitors in the edit suite, and im sure it will when they review it at home. The day ended with a fake graduation for the students, which i think went really well, there were a lot of laughs, and this gave the students a chance to mingle with us and the guest speakers. I think this was a really good relaxed way to end and tie up a really enjoyable day.
I was really pleased overall with my groups performance on the day, everyone knew their own roles, and was at hand to support each other where needed. James did a really good job of leading the group and his general attitude on the day was reassuring, it also made doing my own job easier. I was very happy with my role on the day and thought i executed my jobs to the best of my ability.
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