Innocence of the Lamb (Final Piece for the project 'Confessions')

Yup. I have got this done, after more than a month and a half, in my reckoning. I had the footage before my half term but couldn't do anything with it until I took it to school... And then the school computers gave me so much grief it's ridiculous. And then, when I was on the verge of finishing I got told that it was supposed to be an abstract film.

You know what? I'm not going to explain it. The text contextualises it, and I'd like you to draw your own conclusions about what's going on.

My thanks to all those mentioned in the credits.
Film (c) me, Rosemary O'Reilly aka Lutra-Gem
Music (c) the holders of Shostakovich's rights, and those of the Coull Quartet.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• dmitri
• schostakovich
• innocence
• lamb
• mask
• confession
• false
• bolshevik
• soviet
• russia
• communism
• nikolai
• krestinsky
• josef
• stalin
• leon
• trotsky
• vyshinsky
• moscow
• show
• trial
• trials
• march
• 1938

[Clagnar]

I approve.

Stalin was wrong.

[lutragem]

Mm-hmm. But this isn't supposed to be a film with me trying to make a real, serious statement, it's just the end result of an Art project about confessions.

[LunatikTokyo]

@lutragem Does your school have Adobe After Effects or Final Cut Pro(this program which is only available on MACS)? But both do export movie files though.

[lutragem]

@LunatikTokyo

Um, I think it's Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0, on Windows XP. I can export film files, but I had a lot of difficulty with saving on the school server and locating files and slow computers.

[LunatikTokyo]

@lutragem Ah ok. I havent used that program before. But a good rule of thumb is to not save to the desktop and not to the "My Documents" folder. Theres a chance itll get deleted when the computer is restarted. So always save to a drive where its designated for students to save. For example Im an animation major and there was an "Animation" drive like Animation(:E) and we save our work there(and keeping them in one place).

[lutragem]

@LunatikTokyo

Ah, if only our school was that organised. We had the space available, it was just messy working with it. Students can't access ANY place large enough to store a film file, so we have to use staff accounts and it's just ridiculous. Plus, the program kept losing where the component files were kept.

[LunatikTokyo]

@lutragem Oh my that IS a mess!

[LunatikTokyo]

@LunatikTokyo Cool project btw!! :D

[LunatikTokyo]

@LunatikTokyo Otherwise you can save to a thumbdrive or an external drive. Im sure you probably did the right thing though.

[lutragem]

Oh really? Well, don't forget that I'm new to Cherwell so I know nothing about the resources... Adobe Premier Elements seems to be a decent program, but there were issues with exporting and saving files, and I had to use a teacher's account otherwise I couldn't save it to the Shared Area and... yeah. Got it done in the end.