While filming the recreation of Life on Mars, I discovered ways to recreate shots through movement and placement over similarity of the subject. I also learned how to steady the camera more and keep it even on an uneven filming location, such as the sloping wood area that we filmed in in order to get the greenery shots. I also learned it's valuable to view alternate filming locations beforehand in order to get a good sense of how the area will be lit when filming, as this can give you alternate locations to film should an area be too bright or too dark, such as the car park area that we decided against filming in as it was too dark.
I learned how to add certain special effects to my video clips while editing, such as speeding up and slowing down the clip and adding transitions, such as the dissolve and fade into color. I learned how to synchronies a sound track to a video clip, as I took the audio from the Life on Mars clip and added it to the video clips.
One particular problem I encountered was trying to change the speeds of two two clips with the dissolve transition as an error message would pop up. To rectify this issue, I deleted the clips and changed the speeds prior to adding the transition. I also accidently moved sections of the audio file when moving my clips around, I used the undo tool to get rid of this mistake and made sure that I only selected the video segment of the file, as opposed to both the video and audio segments.
