Continued Main Task Editing 2

Today we have continued to edit our final production, and we have reached the end of cutting down the clips, creating good transisitios that link clearly with eachother, compared to the origional transitions that were very jumpy, not linking together. The new transistions make the production flow better. We used cuts in the mainbody of the film; in the opening we applied a fade, fading from black to the main film, its a very quick fade.

We have changed our opening scene to a small montage of different church clips, we have focused on a shot with a flock of birds flying from the top of the birds. But after producing this opening sequence Kim and I came up with an idea to start with a shot of plain black, with ambiant sounds overlaying this of birds twittering, the shot then cuts directly to teh church, with birds flyin goff the tower as soon as the cut is made.

We have also started to think about the titles, we have decided that we will have them slightly fading into shot, but with using a quick fade. We have thought about using a sepia colour, or a grey for teh colourings of these titles, not wanting to use colour as these will be to bright and draw the users attention away fromt eh content of the film.

We discovered however, that the dialogue in our filmed clips isnt clear enough, or loud to have a good sound quality when viewed, so to get around this we have recorded a voice over using a USB Studio Condensor to overlay the new dialogue onto the clips where the dialogue didn't come out well.

Next lesson we will focus on the sound of the piece, starting to edit the non diagetic music around the eiding of the clips.

Laurence

Continued Main Task Editing

Today we have continued to edit our main task, cutting the clips and applying a black and white effect. We have cut these clips to a more precise timing, getting them to link as smoothly as we can. We have edited the footage of when our main character Tom enters the church, discovering his daughter, Ellie, lying on the floor of the church.

We have tryed to increase the speed of teh editing as he rushes through the door, showing how fast his mind is working, along with his heart beating. We have tryed hard, and have succeeded to not break teh 180 degree rule, showing that Tom is keeping a very focused mind, not panicking like the MI5 agent that he is, taking control of the situation.

We have added a wide variety of shot angles to the church seen, experimenting with different shot types and angles. Including a shot taken through the railings of a small tower featured in the church. In this shot through the railings, the railings and the characters are slightly out of focus, int his shot the character that is seen at the back of the church is out of shot, framed by thte railings we see that the two characters have a close relationship, and this high angle shot amplifies the couples vunerability.

Obviously, it is important to consider that shots must be edited so meaning can be conveyed to the audience, as such we knew it would be important to ensure that our shots lead from one another so as not to damage continuity, more importantly we ensured that we broke the 180 degree rule as few times as possible as this simply looks wrong; and disrupts the atmosphere the film is trying to create. However, for our particular production we did feel it would increase the film's impact if the 180 degree rule was broken as this would increase the sense of confusion and bewilderment in the audience and suggest that the main character's movements are frantic and urgent.

We shall continue to edit the footage in our lesson time.

- Laurence