Documenting The Doing #9: Swish Blog

It's time for yet another quick project and this one took a lot more time to plan than we thought it would. The project as a whole was based around transitions from one shot to another.

We were shown a few examples before-hand and our group clasped the concept quite quickly and we all thought it would be quite simple to think of an idea, but we couldn't have been any more wrong. There were so many ideas flying around the studio from other groups, but we wanted to do something unique. We only had 1 day to film and edit so we were under a lot of pressure in terms of the production side. We were racking our brains to think of a funky idea but in the end we settled for jumping and landing in a different destination.

Naomi jumps and lands in a different place between each transition

The concept of our design throughout the production was Naomi (pictured) would jump and appear to land in a different part of the building. We would then edit the individual shots together to create the effect that Naomi was transporting to different places. We understood it was a simple idea but we thought if we kept it simple, we could perfect the edit and make it look really sharp and sophisticated.

OUR FINAL PRODUCTION: SWISH BLOG - JUMP

When it came to editing the production it seemed to fit together quite nicely and looked very good. We did the simple thing by cutting the clips to fit in synchronicity with each other and this was quite straight forward most of the time. The way we did this was by using the Razor and Cut tools in Adobe Premier Pro to link up all of the footage.

Screen caps of the two main tools used to edit

I really enjoyed doing this production because I enjoyed the concept of making something synchronised with a number of shots and shooting around the college. It didn't take us too long to film as it was quite a simple concept of shots to edit together. When I did my own edit, I decided against using original sounds because there were background noises that didn't exactly match to our production. Instead, I put Girls Aloud's 'Jump' song over and completely cut out the original noise that we had. Looking back on this, I wish I kept some of the original sound as it would've been effective to hear Naomi's feet landing each time.