The final project was a very interesting experience for me. The amount of available time I had to shoot these scenes was very small. I had a few hours after work at 530, so I had to rush before the sun went down. The idea was put together throughout the day in my head during work. After I shot, putting the clips together was no big task. In fact, the background song was much more difficult. I had to splice and fade at two parts of the song. It was very difficult to time and make it sound natural.
There were several technical issues I ran into. I did not realize that the computers I use for editing here at TCNJ have only 2GB of RAM... This is pitiful considering this was shot in high resolution full HD. The result was a lot of dropped frames and painfully long rendering times. The post production easily took 5x longer than the actual production work.
I eventually learned that I am able to reduce the file size by recompressing my videos. Although this process took over an hour, it was well worth it. The size and quality are about half of the original, but it is much better than the alternative.
I had a lot of fun doing this project and it was very informative in terms of how to shoot video, how to edit video, and how to plan around difficult situations and edit around major problems
