Production Log 3

At the beginning of the week we continued our editing process. We amended the scene where Colt (aka Matthew) ended up dying in his house as the lighting effect was over exposed and needed attention. In this scene colt was ambushed by a creepy masked man who goes out and kill Freddy's friend. Colt eventually end up dying on the stairs after being viciously stabbed several times by the killer.

During the week I contributed by continuing to edit the scenes that needed tidying. On our original shoot in Hainault Forest it was agreed that the time spent on filming was not sufficient and it was decided that we would revisit the scene and expand our footage to increase our options when editing.

The challenges we faced this week were plentiful, they included the fact that the facilities i.e (W.C) onsite were unavailable and a couple of the people from the general public made our filming difficult, unfortunately they were under the influence of alcohol and started to verbally abuse one of the production crew who had not provoked them in any way. We decided it would be appropriate to postpone our filming for a couple of hours. We returned in due course to continue filming in peace!

On our return from filming we scanned the footage and discovered that the sound quality/ dialogue was below parr and this was disappointing. After speaking to the assessor we were told to copy and paste the audio of the clip to enhance the volume and quality. We were also advised to increase the pace of each scene to avoid losing the audience attention.

Changes made this week were mainly in the editing department, it was decided to erase any irrelevant clips from the film to limit any confusion/ debating on which clips to save.  During editing we have discovered some new techniques, these include: some great sound effects which we were certain that it would benefit our film. We attempted to create some of our own editing sound effect such as struggling to breath, being hit by a guitar, getting hit by a glass mirror and snap neck effect. However we did not create all of the sound effect that needed to be voice reordered, only manged to do the struggling to breath effect. The guitar effects, we copied and pasted from of the one audio clip's of when Tony get hit by a guitar which we could heard clearly. This made it easier for us to edit. Finally the mirror effect and snap effect were found from the Internet (YouTube).

Next week it will be time to show a draft copy of our film to our assessor and hopefully we will be close to the end of our editing. After checking our diaries we will meet to film on location which is yet to be confirmed (alleyway) 19/06/17 PM.