“Denver’s Music Scene” Camera and Editing Assignment

by Amy Shannon

 

            To be honest, this was not my favorite project; as a matter of fact it was one of my worst. Well, ok there was the time I had to edit a bunch of beach shots to Jimmy Buffets’ Margaritavile…yeah that one takes the cake. So not only was this project my second worst project in my editing history it was also some of the worst footage I ever had to put together. When it comes to conducting interviews on the camera, not everyone can do it. Not to say that I can but it’s funny how many people think that camera work like that is easy.  When your lighting is good the audio sucks and vice versa. Although I personally enjoy filming interesting people, these music wanna-be’s were not interesting, to put it nicely.

 

            As far as the editing was concerned, my main goal was to stretch about 2 min’s of interview footage and make it into something interesting. The opening montage of random Denver photo facts was a fun thing to work on and I learned a lot from it. Working with still images in Final Cut is much easier than it appears to be. If you’re looking to do some quick Photoshop work but cut out the Photoshop then Final cut is your best bet. Given more time I would have worked on how to perfect the images and possibly added more.

 

            The one thing that was hard to control was the tempo of the piece as well as the meaning. It slowly got less and less interesting going from quick pace to really draggy footage. This was nearly impossible to get around unless the interviews were split somehow, which is what I should have done. Technically there was no meaning of this piece other than letting a bored audience know that music exists in Denver. The end.