post-production report

As we have previous experience of editing our film, it did not take us that long to again get familiar with what we needed to do and how to do it. However this didn't get off to the best of starts as when we first went to edit our first days worth of footage we realised a large amount was unusable. This prompted us to have another days worth of filming, which was reviewed in the production report.

When we had finished the second days worth of filming we went back to the edit suite and used Adobe Premier Pro to edit, capture and log our footage. This all went well as the entire group did have previous knowledge of what we needed to do and how we could do it.

However before we could capture anything we had a problem with transferring the footage from the tape onto the computer. The device we had put the tape in had some minor difficulties as it would not send the audio along with the clips. However once some technical assistance had been used we were able to capture our visual and audio together. Once we had got all the footage we began organising our footage in order. This was fairly easy for myself and my group as we all had previous experience of adobe premier pro. After arranging the footage we began cutting it down to size and putting it together. This was easy and we had the clips cut down and organised very quickly. However during this process we realised that scene 8, in which Lucas is on the phone talking to someone, for some reason had no sound. At the time of filming we didn't realise no sound was recording and foolishly only had one take of the scene. Upon realising this we had to remove that scene from the final cut.

When it came to editing my group was fairly experienced and we as a group knew what looked good. We used cross dissolve for the transition between scenes and we also used fade to blacks when we wanted to establish a new day in our film. We also added a glass smashing sound into scene 2 when Lucas chucks the glass at his friend in rage. We used light editing as well as we needed to change the intensity of some lighting- for example in scene 2 when Graham comes to talk to Lucas the natural light was more intense than we had originally noticed and because of its intensity it made Graham very hard to see. We lowered the intensity of the light, making Graham easier to see.

There was also a slight problem with one or two continuity errors. These however were at the end of the film as for the enitre day we had been paying great care in looking out for continuity. For example in the second to last scene we see Lucas cutting himself and blood being shed. However in the next scene we cannot see any blood on his wrist . We didn't notice this at the time and although it isn't the most notable thing it still showed that we needed to pay more attention to continuity.

When it came to choosing music we had to use copyright free music and with the internet this was easy to find. However I found some difficulty in choosing music which I believed was adaquete and reflected the mood of the film. I decided to use a reliable copyright free music source which I had used before. Freeplay Music is a copyright free music website which has many different genres and types of music which is free to download. I decided the best music that would reflect the film would be an slow orchestral or piano peice. Luckily I found the music and gave my colleagues the chance to listen to them and they agreed that the music was appropriate for our film. We added the music to the film and it gave the film more atmosphere.

The editing process, even though it had some difficulties and required some comprimise I believed it was positive because as a group we all had previous experience and nothing that troubled us became too much of a problem and we organised ourselves very well and got the editing done very quickly.