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Prj 02
The first problem that I faced with this project was actually finding the site. Having selected the gym I now needed to find a gym that would let me go in and actually film it. I was hopeful towards my first choice in using the victoria university gym which was quick to decline my request, claiming something along the lines of "its against university policy to have people film inside the buildings". This set me back quite a few days until I managed to find a friend that would let me use their hostel gym (with management's permission of course). The problem with this gym was that it didn't have a boxing bag, so I would have to find yet another site to shoot this part in and hope for the best in editing to make it look as if the two different locations appeared to be shot in the same place... The boxing bag shots were actually done in my friends garage.
After taking to footage capturing it in avid was not a process that was cooperating with me. Importing the film from the camera was done in iMovie. The result of the importing was daunting, I suddenly had to deal with the size of the files, totaling 22GB before importing into avid.
As far as the sound went I felt that the quality of sound coming from the video footage provided a relatively meditative feel to it and worked well enough on its own, particularly with the impact on the boxing bag.
The biggest problem that I came across in this project was the rendering.. In parts of the video the picture quality was clearly not what it should have been. Looking over it again I noticed that this only occurred the areas where I had made frame rate changes, which is where I think it went wrong. The place where this is most noticeable is 03:07 into the video.. If anyone could tell me how to fix this problem I would love to know for future projects.
