Post-Production

Post-Production:

Logging Rushes:



Post-Production Report:

After we finnished filming it was time to edit. We began editing on Wednesday 3rd March and uploaded all our shots onto the software Abdoe Premiere Pro. Overall I found Abdoe Premiere Pro a very easy and simple software to edit on.

The first job we had to do when editing was logging all our clips. We did not find logging to difficult as were the only group to log in the prelimanary task so we knew what we was doing. As we had quite a few clips from filming errors and laughing in shots from filming it took us over 2 hours to log and at sometimes it became very tedius. We logged all our clips using a table on Microsoft Word we logged the in code, out code, scene, shot, take, description of shot and yes/no.

After we finnished logging we had to select the clips we wanted for our film. Because we logged all the clips we wanted it was easier to put them in. We wrote down the in-code and the out -code and then the software automatically selected it ready to insert into our time line. Once we had added all our clips we created a time line with all our clips in. Now it was starting to look more like a film.

Once we put all our clips into a time line we watched the whole thing through closely and look to see if our film all fits together and look for any continuity errors we may have made. We came across a continuity error in scene 5 but luckily we managed to work around this by zooming the shot in.

After we finished watching our film through we then started adjusting and levelling the sound. We found this but quite hard because at first we did not know what to do but after some help we soon realised and completed it. Because we wanted a song involved in our film we needed to find some unlicensed music. We had two options to either record a piece for our film or find some existing unlicensed music on-line. We came across the website http://www.unsignedbandweb.com/ and on there we searched through music genre's and eventually found a piece of unlicensed music to put into our opening sequence.

After we inserted and edited our piece of music to fit with our film we was finished in the editing suite and was ready to export our film and get feedback from other students in our class.

Audience Feedback

Audience Feedback:


We exported a rough cut of our film during editing to recieve feedback on how other audiences see the film. We screened our film to the rest of our class and asked them to give us feedback on what they thought of it. As a group we created a questionnaire for our audience to answer.


These are the questions we asked our audience:

1) Does our film grab you straight away?

Our watching audience said that our film is quite good at catching there attention straight away. Most of our audience felt that our opening scene is quite powerful and reflected our genre well and therefore caught there attention straight away. Everyone who gave feedback all said it grabbed them straight away.

2) What do you like about our film?

We recieved a lot of positive feedback of what people liked about our film. Our audience said the following things:

- It reflects our genre well.

- The use of shot/reverse - shot was good.

- Quick camera shots were very good and kept the pace of the film going.

- The concept was good.

- The music added tension to the film.

3) What negatives could you take from our film?


On a whole we did not recieve to many negative reviews of our film. The one point that was raised when we screened the rough cut was towards the end of the film the pace slows down. With the feedback we recieved we added music to our film and this helped the pace speed up, when the replayed our film to our audience and recieved feedack saying it music added more pace to our film.


4) Would you carry on watching our film until the end?

As we recieved good feedback from our watching audience the majority said that they would carry on watching our film untill the end. They feel our opening sequence did enough to make the feel like they want to carry on watching untill the end. Our audience also said we left our sequence on a cliff-hanger and thats what made our opening sequence so good.

6) What would you say about the quality of our editing?

We were prasied by our watching audience about the quallity of our editing. They felt the quick camera shots made it run smoothly. Also they felt the way we leveled our sound and the quality of where our music came in was partically good.

7) Do you like the quick camera shots we have used?

The most promosing feedback we recieved was the amount of quick camera shots we used. They partically liked the use of shot/reverse-shot, the 3rd degree rule and match-on-action. Our audience felt the quick carmera shots made the pace of our very good.

Research Job Roles

Research Job Roles:

There are many job roles in the process of producing a film. I have researched some of the roles and listed them below:

The Producer - Producers are responsible for keeping the whole project together and making sure everything runs smoothly with the business objectives and creative visions are meet by everyone involved in the project.

The Director - A film director is a person who directs the making and production of a film. The Director of a film will guide his technical crew and actors in his vision to make the film appeal to the watching audience.

Production Report

Production Report:

Filming was not to difficult for our group as the three of us knew each other well and it was convenient to film whenever. We decided to film in half term on the dates Thursday 25th February and Saturday 27th February. Filming during half-term was the easiest option for us as it meant we did not have to worry about finding free periods that match up and Matt had to go to a partnership school for one of his lessons so it would make things difficult.

We we all meet up on the Thursday to film. We began by putting our set together and making the house we was filming in fit to how we want it to look on camera. After getting our set ready we began filming and did not encounter any problems. We whistled through getting our filming done in no time at all and got all the shots we needed to get done on the Thursday done in time.

Filming on the Saturday proved to be a little bit more difficult to the Thursday as we were filming in Liam's Grandads lock up on his farm. It proved to be difficult as we did not know what we was working with. For example we did not know what the lighting was like , how big it was, if it was tidy etc. When we arrived at the farm we took a look inside the lock-up and had a discussion on what to do and how to film. We decided to move a few things around so filming would be easier. After sorting everything out filming was a success and was done quickly and with ease.