Learning How To Use FinalCut

In our last lesson (22/11/13), we were first taught how to use the program which we will be using to edit and finalise our film, FinalCut. Our teacher told us to get into our filming groups, gather round the iMacs in the classroom, and she went through some demonstrations and a few tutorials of the program, showing some of the tools and effects it had to offer. We were told to use some footage and put effects and different tools from FinalCut onto it and she let us explore and discover different things that we could use in our example footage. For us, we used our preliminary task in FinalCut and experimented with that. Because it was only an introduction and a demonstration of what the program contained, we didn't go into huge detail and explanation of the program, but we did cover the main basics such as: cutting footage and marking the beginning and ending of a clip, how to incorporate different effects like colours and changing the position and tilt of the clip and how to modify and alter the sound of a clip and how to add additional sound to a clip. Everyone in our group got a chance to try the program and play around with it. After we experimented with the preliminary task, we imported the very first shot of the beginning of our film and also experimented with that. As like the practice with the preliminary task, everyone got a good opportunity to play around with it.

It was great fun, and the program is really fun to use (even if it was a bit complex!). I'm excited for the editing process and to use FinalCut on the final footage of our film. Hopefully we can have some more practice on FinalCut in future lessons!