Day 3 at Big Bang

Another good day at Big Bang today, I arrived and was thrown straight into to sit with Fred who is an Online editor. Fred was working on the same show that Ben the sound dubber had been doing, so it was interesting to see the different stages and processes of the same edit. As an online editor Fred ensures that everything is finalosed and ready for Broadcast this includes, checking to see the colour is in correct order and changing aspect ratios to match each other ready for broadcast. It is in this part of the edit where he adds the titles and some motion to the edit for example today he was working on 'Deadly 60' so when the voice over was talking about a specific animal he paused the video on the animal and used key frames to highlight it and make it more interesting. Fred was using Final Cut Pro which was good because he was able to teach me some of the key frame techniques and also a good way of enhancing title texts using 'Boris' in final cut, which is something I will be looking to use in the future. Fred also showed me how adding various layers of the same clip and adding different effects can create a good aesthetic appeal and you can create some interesting shots. As the online editor he was sending out the finalised video edit of the piece after it had been colour corrected, sound will be linked back up to the video at the BBC as Fred only works to the guide sound track. Fred also explained how the edit was an edit for a multi national show so he then had to copy all the graphics and title sequences (basically anything with text) again at the end with no text added to it so that different companies in different countries can add the text of there language in.

After a morning in the Final Cut Pro suite i spent a bit of time with the runners and my first duty was to drop off a finalised tape and DVD to the BBC, so it was important I got it there safely. I was pleased with the trust they gave me to go and do it. With not a lot going on in the afternoon my last task of the day was to pop to the bank with there spare change to cash it up and then off to sainsbury's I went to stock up on fruit and milk for the next day, after this I was aloud to go home early whooop!