Marking Up Footage...

In class today we learnt how to mark up footage, this means to keep footage organised and labelled in a useful way which we can quickly refer to. To keep my recorded footage organised I assigned codes to the footage so that I am able to find the exact footage I need when I need it, instead of having to re-watch footage that is not useful. I created a spreadsheet with each code and a description of what is seen in the clip, the advantage of this is that anyone can refer to a clip and should be able to find the clip they want immediately having followed the coded system. 

• This is my spreadsheet, including the code and the description. The code refers to the scene number for example scene 1 (S01) and the take number for example Take 1 (T01) I also included in this spreadsheet a description of each clip, that way I know what is in the clip and will be able to find the footage I need immediately. The last column in the spreadsheet is the quality of the take, so if I have three takes of one scene I will choose the best quality footage avoiding shaky camera footage or an overall bad take. This will give the best possible outcome of my overall project.

• This is the final cut project, the use of bins and code references makes the footage much more accessible, for this short project that I am making, marking up footage is helpful but not necessarily vital. Raw movie footage for a large project marking up footage is needed so that the editors are able to refer to the scenes that have been recorded as there will be 1000s of hours of footage, to keep it easier marking up footage is completely vital. 

• This particular videos shown below is the contents of the 'scene 5' bin, this bin contains all takes that we recorded of scene 5. When I want to find the best take of a particular scene I will refer to the bin and then to the best scene, referring to my spreadsheet. Organisation will make it extremely easier when editing, and other people should be able to use my system to also easily find the footage.