I have been making film since i was 10 years old so i have become fairly experience with a camera, I own a semi-proffesional camera and have learnt many different creative camera techniques, I know how to create shallow depth of field and I am acostemed to filming rules such at the 180 degree rule. I use an external rode video- mic and i have a home made camera crane/jib to allow me to make diverse camera shots, i also have a few techniques on how to turn my tripod into a steady cam. Here is a little tutorial i made on how to do that:
I have uploaded my personal video's to Youtube.com (www.youtube.com/AmbroseProductions) and vimeo.com (www.vimeo.com/ambroseproductions).
I am literate in Final Cut Pro and Imovie, and i have experience using Adobe Premiere although at home I use Final Cut Pro, in my opinion it is a lot better and the effects and options are much more sophisticated. I edit all my work on Mac G5. I do my colour correcting, letterboxing and SFX for each shot in Adobe After Effects.
I have a friend who is at universtiy who composes the music for my work, which is brilliant because i don't have to worry about copyright, although when my work is just for personal pleasure and not for profit, i often use well known tracks. I wither make my own sound effects or I download them from a royalty free site.
I have done a few adverts for charities, unpaid, which i think has let me learn about the research that goes into a project and working as a team.
Above is a showreel montage of the work i have down over 2010, it should show my editing and cinomatography skills as best possible. I often act in my own own work because acting is something i very much enjoy, lately i have started a new project (La Cosa Nostra 2), Ben Elderfield and Stewart Souter wil be featured in that film.
My filmaking company (It isn't a real company yet unfortionetly... but that it will be in a few months) is called Ambrose Productions, and i started of when I was young with a bad camcorder and cheap tripod just making James Bond fan films, this grew into my chosen career path and occupies almost 50% of my life.
First of all:
To import a clip in imovie, you go to file - import, then you choose what clip you want to import and to which 'event' you want to import it to, then it will import and create thumbnails and then the clips will be there, ready to drop and drag into a new project. To split a clip into two parts you right click at the point in time you want the split to be then click 'Split Clip'.
