Deadline Day for the Soundscape assignment may be one of THE most stressful days I have ever experience. My group decided to come in early, we didn't have much to do, the sequence was basically complete, we just needed to complete the ending, add in the titles and then transfer it over to After Effects to use the Rostrum Camera Tool. Sounds simple for 6 hours till the deadline right? WRONG.
Firstly it took me at least 20 minutes to get the hard drive to work because it decided it didn't want to turn on.. with ALL of our work on it, that happened twice. Stressful situation number one.
While Stevie was correcting the sound levels so they were all even, me and Josie created the title sequence, ready to add into the beginning of the sequence. However would it add to the beginning of the timeline, no. For some reason unknown to us or the lecturers it would not work. Stressful situation number two.
However probably the most stressful part of the day, learning that the sequence we first created in Adobe Premier as we had film footage to add into the sequence.. Wouldn't go into After Effects to use the Rostrum Camera. We weren't aware that you couldn't do this and unfortunately we found out too late. The final stressful situation of the day!
Luckily Premier does have Rostrum Camera techniques, but they are extremely basic, it was so frustrating knowing we had all these plans to make our piece even better and we couldn't do them.. It was also disappointing knowing we wouldn't get the grade we wanted because of it.
On the positive side I was so proud with my team all pulling together to get it to work, especially the fact that we sourced nearly all of the material we used ourselves. I also take a lot away from this project, knowing your way around how software works is really important, and not leaving it till deadline day is not a good idea, even if you have little to do.. If something goes wrong it could be a disaster.
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