Final Cut

Drift 2

Here is my final drift entitled tequila nights. There is an extremely loose narrative about a walk around downtown Milwaukee and ending up on the beach on a cool evening. I tried to emphasize the heat from the city and the coolness of isolation, away from public.
Some things I learned while making this drift:
1. Final Cut Pro is an awesome program after you spend five hours trying to understand the basics.
2. Sifting through nearly a hundred stills is a huge headache; I'll never use stills to make a short ever again.
3. Stills do not convey an sense of narrative or story and make it difficult to tell a story of any kind.
4. It is greatly satisfying to complete something using Final Cut Pro
5. FCP will drive someone to the peak of insanity if they have never used the program and are on a 48 hour deadline.

Overall, as haste as I made this short it was very rewarding to understand all of these computer programs. I believe this will be greatly helpful for me in the future to now have some bearings on sound and video editing. Even though my short is very amateur I will not continue to work with FCP in order to better myself as a filmmaker, thanks to being forced to use to program for this class.