Woke up early this morning to film the opening sequence I thought: the camera has to go back today, so I'll take my chances with being late in.........but it was cloudy, so I woke up at 4am for nothing! I missed out on a couple of amazing shots of the skyscrapers high in the mist this morning.
Today is the first time I've used my portable hard-drive, 40GB. It is an amazing hard drive, the only problem is that it takes 1 minute per GB to load on to there. Unfortunately, I didn't get to see whether the transfer worked, because when it was copied and I tried to open the project file to see if it had all worked, an error message came up telling me that the project file was incompatible with the version of FCP on the iMac (I have Final Cut Studio 3, the school has Final Cut Studio, surprisingly!). So off I was sent to the editing suite downstairs where the Year 14s work and I met Ken and Jeff. Ken is the guy who I think runs the course for Year 14s and Jeff who I've met before, is a technician.
Ken taught me a lot of new things, and suggested that I have some freeze frames in my film. From going down there, I learnt that the BRIT School is so much more than a school where you study what you desire - it is a community. I need to make some contacts, mainly because there are so many people from the different strands who could contribute to my short film. Going down there was valuable because not only did I get a broader picture of what the project was about, but I learnt an unbeatable way of working.
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