Finished Piece

Now that myself and Harrison have finished our opening scene, we gave in the clip and had it analysed by our teachers. He was pleased to see we had taken his comments into consideration and re shot the end of our film in order to build up more tension. His only comment for us to improve our finished film further was to add more titles in. We tried doing this after school but unfortunately the programme would not let us edit the titles meaning we could not add any extras in. This was not too much of an issue as the teacher had said the film was at a good standard anyway, the titles were just to boost the marks up.

Music

Myself and Harrison could not find any music that was suitable for the film that built up tension at the same time. As a result, we decided to make our own music using Garage Band. By using this, it mean that we could choose specific instruments and beats in order to build tension whenever needed and create the correct atmosphere.

Other Issues

As well as having the problems with the deletion of certain parts of the film, we also had an issue of when we would be able to finish editing the film. This was because myself and Harrison were both away during the half term so we decided we would stay after school and do it then as opposed to leaving it to the half term when neither of us would be able to do it.

Editing Issues

Once we had re-shot our required scenes, myself and Harrison got together after school to add in the extra clips and edit them all together. When we attempted to put the data onto the mac, it said the desktop space was too full so decided we would delete some files, then load up the new shots. Unfortunately, once we had deleted it we realised we had deleted the files that were in use in the film, therefore deleting part of the film. We thought we would have to re-shoot the majority of our film but we managed to restore it so we sorted that. 

New Ideas - Police Footage

After being told to re-think our ideas on how to build up tension, we decided that as we have a sound clip of a police officer at the beginning it may be a good idea to film a policeman coming out of the station. We put it in slow motion to create a bigger sense of tension and also links in with the clip where our actress drops the bomb which is also in slow motion. 


In order to find a policeman that would be available to be in the film, we went into the police station and asked one ourself and the receptionist found one that was more than happy to be in it.

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.