Evaluation question 1

Sound Editing (music and effects)

There are 5 non diagetic sounds in our film opening; the music, the interview, gun shot, production company sound and the bird noise..

Music

We did this first by finding a non-copyrighted drone on this website we had been recommended by our teacher. We wanted a sound that complied with the conventions our genre. This sound does as it builds suspense, its eery and sad. Here it is with our final edit.

 

The interview

This is a convention of the genre as it sets the scene for the film and creates an enigma. For us it creates a paradox as it is talking about curing the common cold over shots of a destroyed country.. Here is our interview.

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The gunshot

In our opening Abbie kills something with her gun so we needed a gunshot. We found this website with lots on and thought this was the best fit for what we needed. Here it is.

Production Company sound

For this we needed something memorable, but fitted with our genre. So we chose a lightning bolt as natural disaster is a sub genre of post apocalypse. We found it on a website when we were just trailing through having a look. Here it is with the logo.

The Birds 

After the gunshot, there is 3 seconds where there are birds flying round. The only sound we had was me and my group talking and going "Woaahh look at that!" "Thats mint!" so we found these on a sound website. Here it is with the shot.

 

Sound Editing (diagetic sound)

   Now, this is the hardest part of editing in my opinion. The microphone on the camera we use is poor so we used and external microphone that recorded the sound at the same as filming shots. This is good as the sound quality is 100% better, but it is incredibly difficult as you then have to cut the sound and fit it over the shots so it fully flows.

   We started in the same way as the action shots: by going through them to find the best ones as we recorded things for too long or not at all. Then we imported them into Adobe to start editing.

   Then the hard bit started, we had to now cut them down. This job took around 5 hours to do. We started by matching up the sounds to the shots. Then we started to cut them down and have the sound match tot he action. This was the hardest thing to do. We did this to all the shots. This meant all we had left to do was to add in the non-diagetic sound and music.

Editing Process (action shots)

Once we finished editing our establishing shots, we the wanted to add the shots of Abbie acting, so the action parts.

   Firstly we went through the shots we had taken to find the shots we needed as we filmed a lot of the shots twice because of mistakes. Once we found them we imported them into Adobe Premier.

   We then put them into the film in the right order cutting them so it all flowed (continuity editing) making it look good. After this we faded some of the shots in and out where it was required.

   Then we started to add in our sound.

Titles (fonts)

   After editing our Establishing shots into the Film we decided to start choosing fonts and adding them into our film. We wanted to conform to the conventions of Genre when choosing and adding them. The conventions would be a bold font, like a sans serif font and to have them still on the screen fading in and out. Furthermore, we added our Main title in. We wanted to stick to the conventions of this as well. This would be to have the Title on a black background in a bold font. Here are our ideas for each title and the main title...

 



   When we added theses titles, on photoshop I inverted the font so the font was white and then made the background was transparent so it could be seen on the black background.
Here are the titles on our final film...

Final film

Here is our final film, 100% edited, ready for the big screen! Hope you enjoy it!


 

Audience Feedback (98% complete)

Today we pitched our film to our class mates at 98% completion. We did this to get feedback on things to improve on. Here it is...

Editing Process (establishing shots)

   Here is a Prezi on the process we went through...

 

Filming

   On the 16th November we went out to refilm our film opening. We refilmed because of a few shots we needed to add because it was a bit boring, and few shacky shots and the main reason that Abbie had bright red nails on! This is why I was glad we started filming so early because we didn't have to rush to film it if it went wrong at a later date.

   The filming went very well: we got everything done in around 2 and a half hours. We went through our shots and everything looked good to use. We made sure that at each new shot we filmed 3 seconds of asction before and after. This makes editing easier as you have more time to cut it. The only downside to the filming is that there was only 3 members of our 4 memebered group. Shannon didn't come because she had plans with her mum. I feel now like this has drawn a division in the group as we are doing the majority of the work and she is just tagging along taking credit for our work.

   This lead us into filming on the Monday, 2 days after, the 18th.