Month: January 2015

Editing: Day 4

Today we continued to cut down the clips to the right lengths and watched the film through a few times in order to make sure the story made sense as a whole. However in doing this, we noticed that a few of the shots didn’t fit due to a different lighting as the outside light changed while we were filming. The only way that we are going to be able to fix this problem is by retaking the shots, we plan to do this this weekend. So fingers crossed, all should be okay!

Editing: Day 3

Today was the day that I began to get a hang of how to use the editing software myself, rather than struggling to help Coupy get our footage in shape. We started cutting down clips into the right size in order to make the film flow better and to approach the advised two minute time guideline for the short film. The process has started quite slow, as we expected, but compared to last editing lesson, things seem to be going quite well.

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Editing: Day 2

‘Oh god, it’s so bad’ – a direct quote from Coupy.

Today did not go well to say the least, but surely it can only get better from here? We found so many mistakes in our filming that it’s seeming impossible to put anything even close to resembling a professional film opening together! From wobbly cameras to continuity errors, from mirror mistakes to lighting mishaps, anything that can go wrong has gone wrong.

But on the bright side at least we’ve got our footage in some kind of recognisable order…

Editing: Day 1

Today was the first day of the editing process. We began the lesson by talking through what we had achieved over the Christmas holidays, and by deduction, what we had left to do. We discussed the fact that we would have to find two more actors in order to film the last four shots of the conversation between the detective and the neighbour. Fortunately for us, a couple of people in our media set volunteered to help us out with this scene at the weekend coming.

The main bulk of our work done today consisted of uploading the video and audio footage onto the iMacs and choosing what footage we were planning on using and what we could discard for now.

Intentions: Score

Whilst I continued to storyboard, Coupy began to look for music to put to our film opening. I suggested that we contrasted the trail of events by opting for a classical piece in order to catch the audiences’ attention somewhat. The website ‘Audio Network’ was recommended to the class by Mr Jackson so this gave us a starting point in order to begin our search for an appropriate piece of music.

Coupy showed me a few tracks that could potentially work, and not long after we made a short list. We listened to each track a few more times and eventually decided upon Ian Hughes’ – ‘Elegance’. The track can be heard below.

As previously planned, we intend to use this score both diagetically and non-diagetically in our film opening.

Intentions: Filming – Day 2

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Today Coupy and I only managed to film one shot, but probably the most difficult shot – the SteadiCam shot. As I explained in a previous post, the change in actors meant that I would have to use the SteadiCam, where as Coupy was the one who had been practising with it, leaving me with only a short space of time to get the hang of it. However, I think that we pulled it off successfully, and produced a use-able piece of footage.

We had hoped to complete all of the filming today, but unfortunately because of an unsuccessful recruitment of actors, this proved impossible. Therefore, we plan to use Monday 5th to get all of our filming completed providing that we have actors available on this day. If this doesn’t happen, we will have to film our last four shots when we get back to school as we will be out of time this holidays due to personal and working circumstances.

But, despite the mishaps today, the filming process went well. The lighting was on point and with the help of some slick editing, hopefully the piece of footage should transition on nicely from the work we filmed on our first session.