Post 19; Post production report.

Post production report.

After filming, the group were keen to get on with editing.  We were all happy with the production phase and thought our film couldn’t turn out any better. The first phase of editing was to log all of the shots on a Microsoft word format. Logging meant that we would need to separate each scene, and shot out and write down the times where they started and finished, write a description of the scene, and state whether we wanted to keep the shot. This was all done on a word document in Microsoft word, which was presented in a table to keep it neat and tidy, and especially readable.

It took the group about 2 weeks to log, all of our footage. With us using free periods and after school time, however we did face some difficulties during the logging phase, which was surprising especially as we had only just began editing. ­­One difficulty was in the middle of our footage was some unknown footage of a coffee cup; we didn’t know what to do with this footage and especially how to record this on our logging sheet. After thinking about how to resolve this problem, we decided to log the footage and name it as unwanted footage which we would not need during capturing. This was a relief and we were happy we could get on with editing our film now.

After 2 weeks of logging, it was now time to capture our shots that we wanted, so our film could piece together, one shot after another. Capturing did not take long as all we needed to do was to put in the time of the shots we wanted, and the edit computer would piece them all together so it came together like a short film. It only took about 2 hours for us to capture, and after we had done this it was now time to edit the whole short film, adding in credits, universal indicators and editing the sound, and footage we had.

We all took turns in editing, and as I was not the first person to start editing, the group wanted to show me what they had done so far. They had started putting the shots together in order, and overall the film was coming together well. They had also added in some cross dissolves where the shots did not fit together, or was too long or too short. The music was difficult to decide as all of the tracks the director had found were too scary and wanted something a little more light. We finally found a song which we thought worked well with the credits we were going to create after. It was a smooth tone but had a mysterious sound to it. We decided to add in all the names of the cast and crew when there was a beat to the song, it was smooth sounds at the start, then after the sound of the first beat, the start of our credits would come on screen, this meant that the audience could be drawn in with tension.
The following week, we all went to edit together on a Tuesday morning because Anton the director wanted all of us to be together to see what we all thought of the film, and what we could change and do better, he wanted our opinions and views on things to make the film better. We then added in credits of the cast and crew which looked very effective over the music.

We then added in the universal counter leader, and universal indicator at the beginning of the film to give it a realistic effect, and it was a necessity as everyone would need to have one at the beginning of the film. After we did this it was the end of the lesson so myself and Mrs Shipp had arranged to edit together the following morning in my two free periods.

The following morning I went into the edit suite to do some editing, I got a huge amount done that morning and at the end of the two hours we were excited to show the group what we had done. During the two hours we decided to write down a list of things we needed to do and think about after half term, when the group was all together we could make these decisions together. The things we noted down were concerns in which we needed to go back to and either change or have a look at. Scene 6 had many continuity errors especially of character movement. We decided we would edit this after the news reported scene had been shot (After half term). From scene 3 onwards, we need to check the brightness and darkness in the office. Scene 11 shot 1 take 2 needs to be cut accordingly, and scene 11 shot 2 take 2 may need some editing of the news reporter. And lastly scene 6 shot 1 take 9 needs a clear sound mix.
I also needed to remember that we needed to be careful when making changes, as we needed to add in additional footage of the news reporter reporting the train crash, and we would be doing this over half term.

reverbs over the track. Once we had done this we watched the film through one final time after all the editing we had done, we were extremely happy with our efforts and couldn’t wait to show it to the rest of the group.