At the end of the event I went up to the tech room where I had set up my Flip HD camera held in place with a piece of blu tac. It had fallen over and out of power. Well, I thought, that’s it no chance of having captured anything on this.
After yesterday with the trauma of capturing the video from the DV tape which took most of the day and then finding out the paper we’d used had been taken away by the cleaners I was overjoyed today to find that my little friendly Flip camera had stayed alive until the end and must not have fallen over until I’d arrived upstairs.
Now is the task of editing. A while ago I did a course on Final Cut Pro, but only afterwards I researched the cost of the software so I haven’t used it much since. I have Adobe Premiere Elements but I find it so frustrating to use. I think at university they have Final Cut Pro but now that the place is closing for Christmas I will not have time to edit…
..actually i got side tracked here…
I’ve just given up on Premier and decided to take stills from playing it in movie player as I pressed the fast forward key and almost fell off the chair laughing at the action in quick motion.
I love how you can see how it developed, the different activities going on, the conversations and interactions between people. If I edit it I would have to cut out these little sideline things that happened but these are important because they all informed the entire event.
And the chipmunk style sounds are hilarious!
