Editing our film

I started to edit our first film , when this was complete me and amy realised we didn't like the appearance of the film, so we decided to re- shoot this as take 2. Again we edited this and when this was complete we also realised that we needed to do another 30 or so shots the make the movie 100% complete. As we came to a finishing point again we realised that there were some faults with the film. We did a third re-shoot with me editing the biggest part of the film as I was the fastest and the most accurate at doing so, this meant that the final shot was the final edit and when I had finished with group confirmation this was finished.

Editing the logo was Gemma's job to do this took around 4 hours when this was complete we  imported this to final cut express to edit into the film as we did this we realised that the image was not large enough to cove the shot frame, to do this I then found the effects and solid colour which was white so that the first shot on screen is this:


this is a 3 second long shot to show the production of the group this stands for Amy Gemma Ashleigh Productions. 

To edit the rest of the film we used over 100 shots to correlate the 2minutes and 10 second film using cuts, fade in and fade out. music and sound bridges, cross fades of the soundtrack and audio of the film to tie this in and make it sound better this also adds effect and suspension to the film. 

Re- film take 3 the final one

PLAN 

Get camera in Manuel focus first 

Close up's diagonal on the right shoulder 

Zoom 

Zoom of the phone ringing

Pick up the phone with the right hand and place to the ear 

Close up of face ext head to chin in the camera frame 

Conversation "hiya mum ....." Same as on take 2 

Get up and walk off (Don't move the camera) use a pan and move with the speed that Amy is walking 

Leave this as a close up 

Swivel left and walk so that the pan is at the speed of Amy walking ALWAYS keep on the right hand shoulder 

Bathroom shots, use the mirror to film through this will give a good angle for a close up

DON'T CROSS THE LINE 

Shoot over right shoulder 

DON'T ZOOM whilst filming 

ALWAYS zoom before you film a shot

Shower shot again (when walking out of the shower walk straight to the door and out)

Point of view shots 

Fontal shots and then behind shots 

End crying 

Coming down the stairs 

Camera needs to be rolling before we say action 

PLENTY OF SHOTS 

Re-film take 2

We re-filmed again at my house, as we thought that the first shoot we did, didn't look how we wanted it to. This time it was myself and Amy which re-filmes. We did this within 2 hours and we also triple checked the footage before leaving.

We felt that this was the best film we had produced so far, which for first time film of us filming on our own was very exciting but also we became aware of what we needed to do and how we were going to achieve this, we planned what we were going to do shot by shot and this all worked out until we began to edit this together, we then realised that there was some faults in the filming and that we would then have to do this again.

On the third time of re-filming we made sure that everything was done correct to enable us to this we made a list of what needed to be done:

Sound of tying on the keyboard 

Phone ringing 

Record the conversation with picking up the phone 

Record this from a diagonal angle with close ups, ext close ups and mid shots

Follow over the left shoulder all the way through 

Have a POV of the computer screen 


Change the camera settings:

Change from auto focus to manuel focus 

Then zoom to the right depth before shooting the clip in the three shot types 

Change the conversation to fit with the new location setting:

"Hiya mum, yeah not bad, how's London? Yeah yeah actually mum can I ring you back in a bit I'm just going to get in the shower"

End on a close up or ext close up of the face of Amy to show emotion and the fear of what is happening to her and how serious this is, to get a message across that this happens day to day in some peoples life's.

Filming.

we stated to film our piece by going to Amy's house and filming in her bedroom. we filmed all of our shots and the next day we started to edit. we though editing had gone smoothly and that the ruff edit of our film was good. However when we showed our tutor he then explained that because we music playing in our opening scene the sound became jumpy. we solved this problem by re-filming the opening scene without sound. also we recorded the sounds we needed in the scene such as the mobile phone ringing add this to our edit.
we have now finished filming completely and are fine tuning our editing. i recon we will complete this part of the course within a week.

Editing our film.

We have started to edit our film, so far we have got a ruff edit and are starting to fine tune it. there is a problem that we have faced while editing, the song we where going to use for our title sequence is under copy right laws and would need an email proving that we are able to use the song. if we cannot use the song i have started to look for copy right free music to use in our piece. so far i have only found one track that the group has found that suits the tone of our film, i plan to continue to look for tracks so that we have a choice to use in our film