Teachers Feedback

While receiving some feedback from our teacher after handing in the first edit it is clear that we need to re-shoot the last 20-30 seconds in order to build more tension up the the bag drop. Our teacher has said that it is not entirely clear as to what is in the bag and there is no sign of the bomb doing any damage as there is no footage of people around when Flora drops the bomb. We will then edit the new footage and use jump cuts when Flora is walking so tension is building.


As we do not have a lot of time to re-shoot Harrison is going to film with Flora this Saturday but I will be unable to attend this time. This is not a problem as I know what I am doing and we do not need two cameras set up as we only need to do a first person shot of Flora walking into a crowd. 


We can only hope that the weather is similar to the last shoots weather. If not then we will have to spend more time editing to make the weather link in with the other footage earlier on in the film. 

Timing Issue

Harrison and I have found out that the requirement is to be as close to 2 minutes as we can get it. Unfortunately, our film is 2 minutes 6 seconds which is too much over than they would like it to be. Due to the fact it being only our first edit, this gives us time to try and cut down the film as we do not want to loose  marks as a result of it being over the required time of 2 minutes.

Completed First Edit

Myself and Harrison have just finished our first edit for our film opening. We uploaded the police voice over that Harrison recorded to it and cut it down by a few seconds to ensure it fitted perfectly. We decided that making the voice carry on for a few seconds into the first shot showing the actress would be more effective as I have seen it done in films such as the Bourne films and Shooter. This engages the audience and briefly sets the scene. We then made sure the voice over went over the first countdown timer footage to create tension and link the two parts together better. While the voice over is still going on, the music starts to play and when the talking stops, the music takes the dominant position in the shot. 

Timer

To the left is a screen shot of the timer we are using through-out various parts of the sequence. Harrison filmed the timer on his IPhone which we then downloaded onto Final Cut Express.

Titles

Below are some screen shots of the title's being shown at the start of the 2 minutes:

Police Voice Over

We decided that for the helicopter scene at the beginning, a police voiceover would fit in perfectly with the type of film it was. Over a recent weekend, Harrison recorded himself - acting as a police officer - as if the police were chasing Flora, our actress. He did research into various different police scenes similar to ours so he could achieve the appropriate tone of voice and create the right script. He used his software at home to create the right effects to make it sound exactly like a police investigation would.

Film Title

Harrison and I were unsure on what to call our film as it was only the beginning and because we didn't want to give too much away - which was the point of our opening - we wanted a subtle title that would be of the same subject as the opening, but not giving too many clues as to what would happen in the film.
To get ideas for our film title we typed in "bomb" into a thesaurus and got many different words which could have been associated with our scene's, although we felt many still gave too much away about what would happen in the film. We then decided on the name "Case Closed" as we felt it tied in well with the police investigation from the police helicopter scene at the beginning of the film. Below is a screen shot of the title in the film: