So one of the assignments for my Intro to Video Production class is a one minute movie where we cannot have dialogue, written words, and we can only use diegetic sound (sound coming from the story space of the movie, which means no music).
My project partner and I learned a whole lot just from these few days of filming and editing. One thing to remember from now on is to not underestimate how long shooting a short scene would take. Sometimes, it would take half an hour to shoot a 5-second shot due to set-up time and shooting multiple takes.
This was also our first time working with Final Cut Pro (or "FCP" for short). One word I could use to describe this software is "robust". It is very different from Windows Live Movie Maker (WLMM). I like that there's a lot more you could do with FCP than WLMM, specifically audio.
If you remember my post about producing "Meet a Brother: GARRET Edition", it was really tough with the editing of the audio in WLMM. But with FCP, you can isolate the audio from a video clip (within the software) and edit it as its own entity. This feature, alone, helped trim down some editing time (that plus having a project partner haha).
Although our project has its hiccups (you can see our reflections in some of the shots if you look closely), it was really fun to shoot a movie with professional video equipment and use FCP for editing.
Hopefully if my partner's okay with it, I can upload our movie to YouTube so you guys can check it out!
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