Shooting and editing videos

We needed 3 categories sources for our video; footsteps on the stair, shadows and the reader.

Footsteps.
With a storyboard, we started shooting our video on the staircase. I was an actress, actually we only needed my footsteps. And Jose shot me with a camera and Daniela took many pictures of almost same shots with camera's at the same time because we need a movie and still shot as well to mix a video and a stopmoton. We tried to make a lot of footages so we repeated shooting over and over again with different angles.

Shadows.
In order to make shadows we need a special light so we installed a light(I forgot the name of this light..) with a white wall. Because of the back light I could make a big shadow on the wall and Jose and Daniela shot these shadows as a same way with shooting footsteps.

The reader.
To shoot a scene of the reader, we set up a chair and table like a living room beside of the big windows. Because of these windows, there were enough natural lights so we decided not to use extra lights but we should shoot fast to keep similar environment not being affected by quick changing of the natural lights. I took many still shots and Jose shot a video.

Sounds.
To present this story, we had decided to use a voice-over as a main sound so we did not need to care about original sounds during shooting. After getting all video sources, at first, we got rid of all sounds and started recording Daniela's voice. Because we did not notice the difference between reading with eyes and with a voice( this one takes longer time) before recording, our description was too long to fit in 3 minutes so we should revise it over and over again. Finally, we could get straight voice-over that fits in our video without any pauses. But I think we need some pauses following to the story.
And luckily we could get great music from Angelica who is Jose's wife. Personally I really like this music and it was perfect for our movie.

Editing.
Mainly we followed our storyboard, but details were changed little bit following footages. At first we put footages orderly on the timeline mixing and controlled durations to fit the flow of the story and then we trird several effects on every scene to make most efficient scene. At last we edited music, and put voice-over. It took a long time to edit the movie because all of us were very beginners of Final cut but after editing videos I am familiar with this program fairly.