This blog post covers:
- Tutorials for different FCPX tools
- The Prelim and Microdrama
- Our sample scenes
- The journey
FONTS AND TITLES TUTORIAL
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- Find an website where you can download fonts
- Find the font you want to use
- Click download
- Make sure the font is a True Type Font (ttf)
- Double click on the file and then press 'Install Font'
- Make sure Final Cut Pro is closed
- Open Final Cut Pro
- Drag in a title
- Change font to the one just downloaded
SOUND EFFECTS TUTORIAL
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- Find a sound effect on YouTube
- Copy the URL of the video
- Change the video to mp3 using a website
- Import sound into Final Cut Pro and use
GREENSCREEN TUTORIAL
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- Find a green screen video on Youtube (or film something in front of a green screen)
- Copy URL of the video
- Download video
- Import video into Final Cut Pro
- Drag effect keyer onto green screen clip
VOICEOVER TUTORIAL
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- In Final Cut Pro, press on window (top left)
- Click record voice over
- Make sure you can see where you want to put the voice over
PRELIM AND MICRODRAMA
To help put these tips and tricks into place, we did a Prelim practice and a Microdrama. We created call sheets and did some preparation for both of these.
Prelim
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Microdrama
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How we worked as a group:
- I think it was quite difficult to work as a group as we all had such strong ideas of what we wanted to do.
- As we haven't ever worked together as a group, I think we weren't doing great because we weren't used to each other's ways of working.
What could have been better:
- I think we could have listened a little bit more to each other as we could have worked better together.
SAMPLE SCENES
Here are the first and last sample scenes Spikey Productions and I have created:
Mine:
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Spikey films:
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I think there is a clear improvement in these examples. We improved each of our sample scenes by getting audience feedback and tweaking it.
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Here are the behind the scenes for our shoot 1:
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How we worked as a group:
- I think we worked a lot better than the times doing the prelim and microdrama.
- We were all more used to how to utilise a camera and how to direct so it went a lot smoother.
- As it was a long 2 days of filming, I think we were all a bit tired of each other at the end of it but we came together and pulled through and I'm proud of us.
A timeline of my experiences:
- As I had some experience from doing media in GCSE, I knew how to use DSLR, however I was a bit rusty.
- We started by shooting handheld and we didn't use a single tripod in our Prelim and Microdrama
- We did a lot of panning and tracking shots which meant that the footage wasn't very still.
- We found out how to use FCPX, with the greenscreen, SFX, fonts and voice overs.
- We pitched our first idea for the film opening
- Scrapped that idea and pitched the second one
- We did a moodboard and showed the primary and secondary target audience.
- We researched the conventions of different genres then specifically on the zom-rom-com hybrid genre.
- We look at different theories, including Carrol Clover's final girl and the opposing Laura Mulvey's male gaze
- We went location scouting
- We made a call sheet
- We gathered props
- We did awesome makeup!
- We began filming, and re-shooting many times so we didn't miss anything
- We used different equipment
- We began editing
- We experimented with different editing styles
- We got audience feedback and carried on editing to fit the feedback
- We found some issues with the sound
- We re-recorded sound
- We experimented with fonts and FCPX effects
- We created idents
- We produced out film opening!
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