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An exclusive interview with the young director Marija Barysaite. She tells us her secrets of succeeding in the movie business and how her skills have improved from her latest movie. 'It has been an exiting challenge, as this was a genre that I have not yet covered in my life', she quoted. 'My skills have developed massively during this proses, let me tell you how'.
Issue 6 | Volume 4 | 2019
At the very stat of this project I could only use some basic programs like iMovie. I could only use my phone camera, because I couldn't manage to film with a proper camera. I have developed those skills pretty well, but I wanted to push myself harder and reach for better quality.
The beginning
March
Skills?
The progress
After I did some research I decided to try an use Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2019. It was a bit of a struggled, but after watching the help videos I managed to figure out how to work with the program.
The same goes with camera. I have tried and experimented with different cameras like Iphone X, Canon EOS 4000D DSLR Camera Body and CANON IXUS 190 Compact Camera. I personally liked Canon camera the best, but of coursers the Iphone was the easiest. I did face some trouble while importing the footage into my computer, because it didn't have the SD card extension.
Further developments
What I achieved and what would I change?
Looking further I have done some sound research. I wanted to make the music and sound effect high quality so it would make the movie stand out more. I went through loads for videos on the social platform YouTube to find the right sound track that would be connected to film noir. On problem I had with sound is that I didn't use a microphone which would have helped me out a lot. Another thing I did was watch some film noir movies like 'Night and the city', 'Double indemnity', 'Sin city' and 'Blade runner'. This gave me an insight to all the stereotypes a noir movie should involve.
Personally I really enjoyed this experience. It has allowed me to experiment with technology that I haven't tried before and it gave me an insight to a whole new genre.
If I would to change few things, I would defiantly be more organized, with both filming and editing. I would let myself have more time for tweaking the final project. The biggest mistake I made was that, I was afraid to take a big step and use more complex programs . If i would have started using them at the very beginning ,my works standards would be higher.
