Overview:

The work “Salakapakka” (Secret Pub) was created in collaboration with the students in my MAT25JH-group in the Finnish vocational school Riveria where the overall idea was to plan and produce a short (video) scene of any theme.

This included all the common tasks any production of size requires: Pre-planning, scripting, choosing people into the right roles, rehearsing, filming takes, and most importantly, each editing the video in post-production with the school’s video editor of choice: DaVInci Resolve.

My roles in the production: Camera operator and video editor to my own version (shown above)

Now, I don’t mean to sound dull or having my head too up in the clouds, but this video-editing challenge was not that bad as it could have been thanks to my previous experience with Adobe’s software, Premiere Pro. Sure, Resolve was quite overwhelming at first because of how it presented the similar tools but in entirely different places, but eventually as I explored and was given a brief tutorial in class, Resolve didn’t look and felt that bad to use. Quite frankly, it is easier and a little more intuitive than Premiere Pro.

Though my most disappointments in Resolve were the freemium limitations of the software: if you wanted to use more of its vast features, you should upgrade to the Studio-license.

What I learned?

• Usage of DaVinci Resolve in video-editing and merging past editing knowledge

• Working as a part of a production crew. Start to finish.

• How to operate a video camera under a director's order.

• Express my creative ideas in production and let go of ideas that don’t serve in the situation.

• Videography (What image-sizes to use and why, adding depth to the photo, power of the scene’s lighting and set composition and design)

All in all, I enjoyed the process of the production and how the video turned out.