In the beginning, we had trouble with our editing. We made sure we had enough clips to fill a five minute opening and decided on shots that we liked. After deleting unnecessary clips, we were still way over our allocated time and discovered that our opening didn't flow and make as much sense as we had originally hoped. We gathered up feedback and decided to re-film certain scenes such as the dialogue, hoping to make it flow smoother and more diligently. However this began to produce problems with editing. We would have to make the consistency of costumes, props and placement of acting.
After re-filming the scenes and speeding up actions such as walking or shot reverse shot scenes, our film was beginning to flow much nicer and more professional. However, there was still some scenes missing and actions to make our opening make sense. We then cut down further to a reasonable size and mind mapped more ideas based on our feedback once again. We decided to completely desert ideas and focus on making the storyline more interesting and gripping to the viewers. Finally we had re-filmed and made progress on producing more clips. Our feedback was excellent and our storyline made sense to all viewers.
Camera angles got easier throughout the project as we used more than one to take the same shot. This guaranteed that we got the perfect shot or the same shot from different angles to see which looked better or what effect it would give to the audience. By using different camera shots, we were able to give ourselves the opportunity to experiment with different locations of the camera to fill criteria and to generally make our film look the best it could.
Adding credits was not a problem using the imovie on the imac, we had already decided on the placement of the titles and based the font on the movie title, this would connote and mirror the effect of the whole concept of the title. Quite surprising to us, the credits seemed to be a missing puzzle piece that simply slotted in and complimented our work to it’s full extent. There was no struggle in editing the credits into the film, although our original idea of credits was abandoned due to lack of funds and equipment.
Sound was another key instrument to making our film opening a success. We had difficulties at first with the arrangement of clips and what worked well and didn't. In our rough cut we decided that a a scene could be shortened by a maximum of an estimate of 30 seconds, however the dialogue was very important. We decided to split the clip from the sound and use the sound elsewhere and this indeed worked extremely well and better than what we had hoped for. This clip can be seen in the mask dialogue. In the first scene where the antagonist is seen opening the door and look at the CCTV camera, there was a lot of background digetic noise of cars, the door and birds. This was very unrealistic and killed the tense atmosphere we had wished to create. We muted the clip, which instantly made a precise impact on the audience and what we hoped for.
Music was indeed significant to encourage our project to be the best it could possibly be. It was incredibly difficult to connote what our ideas suggested using garage band. We tried to edit in a fast paced, up beat, yet slightly chilling mood in the chase, to our music which then merges into a rather sincere and dramatic piece in the detective scenes. This took the team quite a few hours, trying to take on board constructive criticism people had to offer, and finally our hard work paid off. We received a lot of compliments towards the music in our film opening and positive attitudes about it.
No comments:
Post a Comment