Reflection

Describe any problems or difficulties you encountered during post-production and editing. These may include; technical difficulties, corrupt or missing files, group related issues. etc;

As a group we had so many problems it’s hard to count them on one hand. Our group had arguments on whose idea we should use. Eventually they all chose mine. We shot our first film but we weren’t organised and so we missed a large array of shots. As a group we decided that instead of getting the extra shots we should just shoot again. Our lead cinematographer was away and so we had to substitute her with someone who was not up to her standard and so the second film had all the shots and flowed well but it had no cinematography to it. So once again we had to re-shoot. This time our lead cinematographer was able to film and took it on herself to shoot the whole film on the weekend. Once the film had been shot, our group decided that it was smart if only two member edited and for the other three to find music and start the soundtrack. While these two girls were editing they encountered technical problems. The started editing and had edited a considerable amount of the film but then the next lesson the USB corrupted putting them back to the beginning. The started again and were halfway through when they found out it didn’t save properly to the scratch disk. The third and final time they started (threes the charm) it properly saved and the completed the editing. After we picked all of the songs, one group member left so the two of us were fixing the soundtrack. After all of the songs and the film had been imported into garage band I set to work getting rid of all of the non important background noise and laughing. I found this very difficult until my teacher showed me a useful technique in deleting background noise with out making the soundtrack out of sync with the film.

Explain whether your pre-production and planning helped during post-production. In particular, discuss whether the use of devices such as storyboards, shot-lists, and rough edits assisted in the editing process;

As we refilmed three times and so for the first film we did have a shot list and storyboards but they weren’t used as we slightly altered the storyline. But for the 3^rd and final effort we make a proper shot list and props list and this helped in the post production when we were editing as we knew what we wanted out of the shots we had.

Clarify any time-management issues you encountered during the editing process and describe the steps you implemented to improve in this area;

Our group was extremely unorganised and it is not a single persons fault. We split up the work between us all and although some of us completed what we were supposed too others didn’t which set us back. We also constantly argued about the genre of the film and whose film we ‘should’ have shot.

Discuss whether you made effective use of the provided templates (EDL and Sound Design) to assist in the editing and decision making process;

Our EDL was part of our shot list. Our shot list included what we wanted out of our shots. We didn’t use a SD template as shooting our three films had taken up a lot of time and we were extremely rushed in making the soundtrack.

Discuss whether you undertook adequate and detailed reflection to throughout your project. Have you provided enough evidence to support your work? (Look back at your blogs/journals and think about whether it looks like a whole terms worth of work).

My blog is slightly inadequate in that I don’t have all of the reflections but I did post all of the pre-production work.

List any skills, techniques or tricks you have discovered during the project.

During the project I learnt how to use Final Cut, and Garage Band. I learnt a good technique in garage band about how to edit the background noise without making the soundtrack out of sync with the film.

Discuss YOUR feelings about the production task:

Are you satisfied with the final result?

I am happy about how the film turned out. For rushed work it is good, it had sufficient cinematography and a matching soundtrack

Would like to change any aspects of your film?

I would have liked to make the film a little more serious but that is the way the actors interpreted it.

If you could start the project again what would you do differently?

I would definitely be more organised and would have liked to shoot a film like this on the first go.

Reflection

During this term my group has run into many problems. Bella took it on herself to film the whole film during the weekend. The rest of the group including me converted and named all 83 clips. we have now started editing. The editing process doesn't need a group of five and while Sharna and Bella are editing Chloe, Jess and I are looking at garage band and starting a EDL and TDL.

Script :)

Scene One:
Sue: good morning detective smith!
Detective smith: good morning sues
Sue: a new case has come up!
Detective smith: what is it?
Sue: an old friend of ours you know the wolf?
Detective smith: yes I do
Sue: yes well he is chasing our other case little red that has stolen the hutch diamond. Think they are both after the same thing
Detective smith: not again! I HAVE TO GO!
Sue: don’t forget this!
Scene two:
Little red: yes I have got it! I have the diamond. I have the hutch diamond
Wolf: (tackles little red to the ground) GIVE ME THE HUTCH DIAMOND! GIVE IT TO ME!
Detective smith: GET OFF OF HER! I'M GOING TO GET YOU!
Wolf: never!
Scene three:
Detective smith: STOP (wolf falls over)
Little red comes running in and steals the diamond back off the wolf: ha-ha mine now!
Detective smith: NO!
Detective smith walks off smiling :)

Props List

Characters:
Detective costume: jeans, leather jacket, checked shirt, glasses
Secretary costume: dress, heels, glasses
Red Riding Hood costume: red shirt, red track-pants
Wolf costume: black hooded jacket, jeans, sunglasses
Props:
Diamond ring
Car
Taser/mobile

Shot list

Scene 1: Office Scene
• Establishing shot of smith's office
• long shot – smith's walking down the path
• Front view of smith's walking
• medium eye level shotside view of smith's walking. Pan
• medium close up of smith's walking towards door
• over the shoulder walking door of house in background
• low angle of smith's walking closer to the door – medium long shot
• pan up from feet of smith's when at door.
• Close up of smith's going for the handle
• Extreme close up of smith's opening the door handle
• Medium tilt of smith's opening the door.
• Camera on opposite side of door medium close up of smith's walking in.
• High angle of smith's walking towards his desk
• Medium shot – smith's opening the door
• Close shot - handle being twisted
• Long shot – smith's going through the door
• High angled long shot – clothes thrown on chair
• High medium shot – smith's coming through door panning as he sits down
• Side eye level shot – smith's talking to sue
• Angled upward medium shot – sue talking
• Angled downwards medium – smith's talking
• Eye level medium shot - answering phone
• Long shot - standing up, grabbing clothes and running out the door
• Close up - smith diamond (in little jewelery box)
• Extreme long shot – smith's running down the hallway and putting on clothes
Scene two: Driving Scene
• Use shots already made
• Eye level shot of smith's in car – can see smith's in rear view mirror
Scene 3: Forest Scene
• Establishing shot – smith's getting out of car
• Panorama – smith's entering the forest and picking up a stick and pine cone
• Previous shot – pocketing pine-cone
• Medium shot – smith's walking through forest (smith's back)
• Medium shot – smith's walking through forest (smith's front)
• Long shot – wolf chasing red riding hood
• Extreme long shot – red riding hood running and falling over crawling away
• Close up – red riding hoods face
• Medium shot, down – wolf dragging red riding hood
• Extreme long shot – smith's behind tree, red riding hood and wolf fighting in clearing.
• Long shot – smith's throws pine cone at wolf pan as wolf storms off
• Long shot – smith's runs to red riding hood, whose unconscious, he has handcuffs
• Long shot – wolf stalks back in
• Medium shot – wolf shoving smith's onto floor
• Medium – wolf pulling out chains from pocket
• Close up, angled upwards – wolf strangling them
• Close up, sideways – of ground

Reflection

This term we are editing and adding sound to the short films we made last term. We have run into some problems with the editing and many scenes need to be re-shot. The group and I have decided that it is best if we just re-shoot the whole film again. By making a detailed shot list we were able to plan everything out. We are re-shooting this Sunday and I believe, if all goes to plan, that this film will be a lot better than the last one we made.

Group Production Task - Reflection/evaluation:

Describe any problems or difficulties you encountered during the filming of your project
During the film process my group encounted a couple of problems. Our first problem was that we couldn’t match up our schedules and so only 3 of us could film on a Saturday. Our second problem was that we had to go back and film other parts that weren’t as good when we watched them.

Describe any skills, techniques or tricks you have discovered during the project
During the filming process I discovered that using the camera you could focus on something in the foreground and have everything in the background unfocused. I also discovered some interesting angles to shoot from.

Are you satisfied with your film process so far? How could you improve this?
I am satisfied with how the filming process went but we probably could have managed my time better.

Have you managed your time effectively?
I managed my time well but I could have managed it a lot better and possibly not wasted as much time.

Are there things that you would like to change?
Yes, I would like to change my story

If you could start again what would you do differently?
I would have liked to changed my story line and also have shot the film differently

HAVE YOU UPLOADED YOUR FOOTAGE TO AN APPROPRIATE COMPUTER FOR EDITING?
No, we had an issue with the macbook computer so the editing was done on a different program.

Does your group have a backup copy of the original footage?
Yes, we all do.