Creative Critical Reflection Three

In this video reflection I addressed two questions by talking about how my production skills developed and how I integrated technology throughout this project.

The project experienced mostly smooth sailing up until the point I was editing our final cut. That is when two major things happened. One of which was the COVID-19 outbreak leading to school being canceled and me practicing social distancing and being unable to communicate with my partner in person for more than a month. The second major occurrence was the deterioration of my editing system.

Halfway through editing out final cut the DaVinci Resolve editing system began to crash more frequently than I discussed previously on the blog. This made it difficult to complete any major edits and made it even more difficult to save in between these edits.

I was luckily able to export the almost final cut before the whole system crashed and I was unable to return to editing on the program. This is when I turned to Splice for the final phase of editing.

Luckily this just included some minor trimming and the inclusion of credits being added to the title sequence. None of these problems are addressed in the reflection because I chose to focus more on where the majority of our editing took place: DaVinci Resolve.

Here I was able to take videos filmed on the Iphone 7plus and Iphone 11 plus and edit them using color correction, transitions, and various other techniques. The sound and title editing software on this program was some of the best I’ve seen while it was operating correctly and I learned a lot of new things from the software that I can carry into the use of other editing programs.

Of everything I’ve learned about how to plan, produce and edit a movie I think the most important thing would be not being afraid to adapt. I am the type of person that if something goes wrong, I sit there and work to fix that one thing before I move on to the next. What I learned from this project is sometimes when things go wrong, you need to find a different thing to fix it. In other words don’t stop progress for one thing, instead never stop moving. Don’t be afraid to jump in to the next step of your project, you may learn you were more prepared than you thought.

Resources:

DaVinci, in. “Custom Titles in DaVinci Resolve 16.” YouTube, 4 Sept. 2019, youtu.be/YhNzCyhILCE. Accessed 20 Apr. 2020.

Davinci, in. “Titles in Davinci Resolve 16.” YouTube, 6 Sept. 2019, youtu.be/1xrpfGvPqLA. Accessed 20 Apr. 2020.

Day One of Filming. “Day One of Filming.” YouTube, 24 Mar. 2020, youtu.be/cTLsF9DfgvI. Accessed 19 Apr. 2020.

Final Title Sequence. “Final Title Sequence.” YouTube, 19 Apr. 2020, youtu.be/MZeN-ySBgk4. Accessed 19 Apr. 2020.

How to Record Microphone Audio inside DaVinci Resolve 16 – Tutorial. “How to Record Microphone Audio inside DaVinci Resolve 16 – Tutorial.” YouTube, 6 June 2019, youtu.be/fIqkcJVsmrA. Accessed 20 Apr. 2020.

Media Rough Cut. “Media Rough Cut.” YouTube, 25 Mar. 2020, youtu.be/c2FSKTs8shc. Accessed 19 Apr. 2020.

PowerPoint, in. “How to Make Movie Credits in PowerPoint [UPDATED 2019].” YouTube, 31 Aug. 2019, youtu.be/jZVSssH5Nt0. Accessed 20 Apr. 2020.

PowerPoint Screen Recording Feature. “PowerPoint Screen Recording Feature.” YouTube, 11 Feb. 2016, youtu.be/kQwGEY4IDi0. Accessed 20 Apr. 2020.

Problem solved, Davinci resolve 16 not running problem. “Davinci Resolve 16 Not Running Problem. ||Davinci Keeps on Crashing While Opening||Problem Solved.” YouTube, 4 May 2019, youtu.be/C9lhMhVGp6M. Accessed 25 Mar. 2020.