The British Exchange

The British exchange was a project that we did for TV studios while the British kids were here. This was probably one of the best and most entertaining projects because we had Nick in our group and having someone with a British accent perform in our video was authentic and very entertaining. This project was also rather challenging though because we only had a week to get it done. We also were required to use a prop that we got to choose on the first day of production. Nick actually came up with the story idea that was actually a misunderstanding. One person thought they were trading a real crystal. The other was thinking they were trading crystal meth. We thought it was a good idea and we went out to shoot. We shot on the track at Blair near the back wall to make it look sketchy. We shot with Sam’s T2i, and Mr Mayo’s T4i and the quality was excellent and it took about a class period to get all of our shots. I then took the video files and edited them on FCPX on my computer at home. One problem I ran into was the fact that the T4i shot very blue and the T2i shot in normal color but I simply matched the T2i’s color with the match function on FCPX and Magic Bullet Looks. This worked because the mood of the overall production was sketchy so the blue color enhanced it. This project was one of the best-recorded memories of the British kids coming and I hope that we get a chance to see them next year and perhaps do another video project.