Since handing in my disertation, things have literally gone from bad to worse. And i'm okay with it. After I handed in my disertation I then had Film 3 - Biodiversity to think about. I collected the lap top and discovered that it didn't work, so Thursday morning at 5am i flapped about a bit, then did some filming around the lake until the reasonable hour of 8am came around, and then I called Dani and asked if he would be my saving grace. His reply = yes, come in and i'll fix it. Note to self (Buy Dani something to say thanks) So after my little lap top incident, I had Kat's help with filming some more shots of 'pretty things'. I then discovered the lap top didn't like the idea of logging and capturing. I thought about calling Dani and seeing if he knew what was wrong with it, but the time was 10 pm, so i went with my usual technique when things don't work...I hit it. I know what you're thinking, and yes perhaps I am a little bit crazy and careless when it comes to technology, but....guess what? The lap top started to log and capture. I'm sure these things have a conscience. With all the tech difficulties i thought to myself 'I'll go out for a ride on the horse to chill out', great idea, what i hadn't expected was an evil driver with a caravan, who clearly doesn't understand the meaning of driving slow in the countryside. It really really bugs me when city folk come to the countryside and complain about there being horses on the road. Hello, people? You're in the countryside!! If you don't like it, go back to where you came from! I remember having a road accident when i was 16 on my Thoroughbred Pateley, a man was driving at 70 mph along the little single track country road, saw me and slammed on his brakes and nearly skidded into us. Pateley ended up spinning around in the middle of the road because he was so terrified and the man was in a hedge and then had the cheek to have a go at me!! I thought, you cheeky sod, if you weren't going so fast none of that would have happened. People are always in a rush and have no patience for anybody else, and risk the lives of others just to get somewhere a little sooner. I'm sure if that man had killed me and my horse, he wouldn't have been worrying about his crappy car.
Anyway, back to work matters. So, after having difficulties with tech stuff, I started to pull together a rough cut. I'm struggling with the message and rhythm of film 3. I have lots of shots and stills of pretty things but am finding it difficult to put it into a story. Which things look nice next to each other, what works and what doesn't and how well do they convey what it is that i am trying to get across. I think this film can be edited quite quickly as i've learnt a lot through experiementing with my other two films. I am overcoming these problems by working on the text and then matching up the text with shots that compliment the words, which is creating a basic story plot. And then I am experiementing with the shots to see where they fit in best. I am finding it difficult to decide whether i should keep all the domestic animal shots together and all the plant shots together and so on, or whether i should mix them up...any thoughts?
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