Making the Film

So luckily, it was the most beautiful day we could ever wish for. Josh, Marina, my friend Wayne and myself, all went down to the Abel Tasman National Park..no I'm joking we went to Mt. Vic. But no one needs to know that. We made a day trip there where we thought we could capture the most gorgeous shots of our app, along with the views and surroundings. It was actually my first time up there, and in fact my first time in that part of Wellington, so this experience was entirely new to me. With the app on Josh's phone, I put my hand up to do all the videoing and all the video editing since I had good experience with the camera and video. My 2 designers were a little camera shy so my friend ended up being the actor, which he didn't mind at all. He'd been in my previous projects anyway back from first year. So we wanted to create a commercial like video, kind of like a reveal trailer for this awesome award winning app. I shot different angles, directed the crap out of everyone (I actually felt like a true director, all I needed was a clapboard to say cut!), and took some amazing shots of the park while we were up there. But the thing that was my favourite that I had managed to capture, was the lighting. Pay close attention when you watch the video over and over again to the lighting please, and the views they were truly amazing. 

The editing side, was somewhat painful. I had to get it perfect. The intro wasn't too hard to make but compiling all our clips together took time. I ended up editing the video first on Adobe Premiere Pro, which is my favourite program to use for it. Then once it was all compiled, I rendered it in 1080p (hence the 2.32GB file we had) and further edited it through Adobe After Effects. I added the song in which I have credited in the video description, and Josh added the text in the video which wasn't too hard to do surprisingly..although it was 3am in the morning by this point. But never mind, we were still trucking along. So once everything was done and sorted with the final rendering, we viewed it, and it's safe to say we're surprised with what we came up with. This was truly a great experience. I have also, for fun purposes added a couple of photos we documented whilst we were up there, just to show that during these dark times of hand ins, we still can find time to ourselves and enjoy reality a little bit more.