Production log 4

During the beginning of the week we continued our editing process on our short film. On Monday morning we showed a draft copy of our film to our assessor and in the hope that we were near finalising our film. We got a couple of suggestions on how we could enhance the film and we were advised to finish filming as soon as possible. We took notes to remind us what we needed to change: At 2:10 into footage, our assessor suggested that we  fix the pace of our editing as it was a bit too fast. We agreed with the assessor as it made us realise that the audience will not be able to keep up with what was going on in the scene. We were also told to change some transition as it was thought that we should have chosen a better transition for the dream scenes. We had to amend the transitions for the scenes, instead of having the ripple transition we decided on a flash to make it look dramatic. We were also told to add some more sound effect to create tension within within the dream scene and to also make this uniform throughout the dream scene. Finally the assessor told us delete of some shots at the beginning as it was creating a slow start, we were also told to add credits.

In the previous blog post we needed to decide on a location so we could film some filling/ extra shots.  We checked our diaries and we confirmed 19/06/17 8:30 PM alleyway Goodmayes. However we did not start filming till 9 PM as our actor was  delayed our filming. We managed to finish filming in the alleyway eventually.

When we met the next day we came across some editing issues. In some of our clips there was a change of lighting within the shot( due to the actor arriving at dusk!). We could tell from looking at the sky how much darker some of the shots had become. We researched on how we could change the lighting of the sky within our clips via Youtube. It was quite simple  to solve and the result was fair

The other challenges, due to time limit and actor availability were that we were unable to reshoot any footage that we were not 100% with., Our assessor said to follow the changes he had asked us for and that our clips were fine. We continued editing from this point onwards and once we had finished filming we exported it to YouTube.

During this week I felt that it went well and that we had worked well together. I feel that in this unit I had gained a lot of experience as I was the main person involved in editing and camera work, a role which I preferred as opposed to being in front of the camera.  I thoroughly enjoyed my involvement everything and it was a productive experience.