Saturday 17th May 2014

I was very excited for today, since I were suppose to start videoing my video today since I had free time as it is a weekend. For today, I wanted to video my neighbours playing different stuff such as football and hide and sick in the neighbourhood. Unfortunately, this was not possible as it started to rain and was not able to shoot the video. Though, to not miss out on anything, I was able to shoot the first scene of my video which was about me brainstorming play using words on a piece of paper. This was done indoor at my house.

The challenges I faced was to not make any mistake when the recording was going on. This was because I had to do this fast since there was a given time span according to my design for this scene. This caused mistakes in spelling, work was not neat and handwriting would sometimes be hardly visible. I solved this by first making a sample brainstorm which I would copy when doing the final recording. This avoided me from making mistakes. In addition was the issues with the camera-man who was my dad which I totally accept and thanked him for his great effort. Since I was brainstorming, for the paper to be visible, my dad had to stay with the camera right above me in a very uncomfortable and tiring position for about 1 minute 30 seconds. I would often stop and tell him to start again when he was not videoing properly or was shaking too much, though I finally shot the video and some of the challenges that my camera man faced can still be seen through the movement and poor stability of the video. To overcome this, I shot the video in fast motion so that the mistakes of the camera-man would hardly show and would also make the scene shorter than it was.

I was very jubilant and delighted by what I had done as I was done with the introduction  of the video. Before today, I didn't know when and how will I go about this, however, by today I got the motivation to shoot the rest. In addition, since I am using my phone for the videoing, I decided to download a editing video software called KineMaster which I found very fun to use and had all the features that windows movie maker has. This made it easier for me to edit the videos I shot and have already applied the video I shot today to edit and start making the video (Introduction) This will make me not have to compile the videos I shoot and then edit at the very end. Therefore I am already working on shooting the various scenes meanwhile editing and applying them to my final video. Can't wait too shoot the rest!