Hooray! So now I have something that is starting to resemble a finished piece. There are some blank spots that I have to go back and fix, but overall I’m quite happy with the result. When played on the iMac on full screen, the images look good and crisp and everything fills the screen well, making best use of everything. Some of the clips are not correctly placed and there is a small black line in the middle of the clip, so this will be my first job to go back and edit. I’ve also made the film three minutes; as I think this is of suitable duration for an art show. i’m quite happy with the soundtrack but think I’m going to go back and removed the bird song in the first half of the video and make it more prominent in the second half, whilst also trying to show more of the renewable energy series in the second half of the film.
In this version, I have also moved the factory emissions to the top left to start with, as many of the emission flow from right to left and I think it would be compositionally better to have them flow of the screen. Some of the shapes and angles in the footage are replicated in other pieces of film, and has made me discover more about the way I create a composition. I feel that I rely on the rule of thirds quite heavily, and this has allowed good transition between shots. Overall, I am extremely happy with the quad split and will now go back and make some minor adjustments, namely to the positioning of the clips, and also think about changing the order of some of them; at present, there are a couple of seconds where the same pice of footage shows in two locations at the same time. Although this is not really a bad thing, I think I have more than enough footage to avoid this.
Some time back, I also started a more complex edit, but this will take some time to render and I have decided that it is more important to get a final piece finished and ready for the show, and then let this other mix render. I did start rendering this new edit, only to get an estimate of how long it will take, and Final Cut Pro gave an estimate of 44 hours!
