Monday 6 April 2009

What happened during editing

During editing we did make alot of changes during editing. But what took up alot of time is the titles we were doing but mainly it is more of how the titles entered the screen, for instance dipping to black and where we had to put the titles. The first time we had the people starring in the clip on the woods scene when Chris is running it came in right hand corner and then when Josh was on the screen we put titles there to. Then we put our individual jobs that we did during just a black screen and you hear Josh and Chirs fighting. Then it came up with up a piece of paper on the package just showing "Shadows Present."
Our final piece for our titles we had each individual black screens just once each of our names, and then at the end there was a big title "Shadows Present" just white and the it fades into white and red, then all of a sudden it fogs and goes off the screen.

The music on our first piece was very loud and in your face and a lot of people from our class said they didn't like it as it was like a big film and not the intro to a film. But now it's soft music that goes great with the film and what is on the screen.

What happened during the shoot (interior & exterior)

Exterior
We filmed on Wednesday 5th February in the woods near our college called Alexandra park. We used the storyboard to help us about what we were going to film. Chris and Josh were our actors so whenever they needed to act Chloe and I filmed them and this gave us a chance to follow the storyboard and also give our own opinion of what kind of shot we wanted. But after we filmed it we showed it to Chirs and Josh if they thought it looked right just to make sure. Josh and Chirs also decided to do some extra shots of Josh rolling down a hill while Chris pretend to shoot him but we never included those shots in our clip. Also with our props (the package) we put mud on it to make it looked like it had been through alot of people before it came to Chirs.
Also we added an extra shot of when Chirs drops the package and then there is just a plain shot of the package on the floor then it goes back to Chris. I never liked this shot because when it was just the shot of the package it is straight and in my opinion the package would have been wonky if it had dropped out of Chris's hands. I never said anything as I never that we had filmed that till we got to the edit suit and it was too late to film again in Alexandra Park.

Interior
The week after on 15th February we filmed are next piece in the studio in our college. Again, we used the storyboard to guide our way to what to film. We didn't really add an extra shots in the studio because we didn't have any ideas of what else to film, but what we did film we shot it like about 4 to 5 times over just to make sure we have enough shots for editing. Chloe and I tried giving ideas to Chirs and Josh but they never liked our ideas so we never used them in our film. We used a lot of props in this shot compared to when we in Alexandra Park but that was only trying to emphasis where Chirs was(in a hotel room) so we used things that were in the studio like a fan and notebook etc. Again, most of the time Chloe and I shot this, only because Chris and Josh were in the film, but again we asked for there opinion if they think that it was ok.