Monday, March 21, 2011

Time Consuming? Yes, that's good.

Flip Camera
The reason I say that Digital Editing is time consuming is because it does take time to get it right. And I mean that in several ways. First and foremost the planning that is involved in the storyboarding part takes a considerable amount of time. Writing up a script, thinking about camera angles, inserting sounds and visuals - other then the video, all take some time to ponder about. Secondly, the shooting of the video takes time because of the possibilty and or necessity to take and retake particular scenes if need be. This may be due to outside noises or the forgetting of one's lines. Third, once the filming is done the editing takes place. Cutting here and there in order to make a tight little package all under a minute or whatever the time restrictions may be also does take some time. If only viewers knew the amount of time it took to put together that 30 second PSA. Finally, the good part about all of this is that while putting together a digital video editing production participants are so engaged in the process that the time goes by rather quickly. So for this instance of learning by those involved, time really does fly by while you're having fun. Could a teacher ask for anything more?