Evaluation

We made a video in the form of a DVD extras. We had seven questions to answer. As the answers to the questions were being read out we have key words and images flashing up on the screen to illustrate what we were saying. We decided that it would be best for Nick to read out all of the answers as he had the best voice on camera. We found that we had to rush the actuall editing of the footage as we were very short of time and it was a very tight deadline. However, we managed to get it done in time.

Editing Overall

When it came to editing we had alot more luck. We were able to cut the shots how we wanted to get the look that we wanted. We did not encouter any major problems when editing, we just made sure that we saved out work and we had a back up of it encase we lost the footage we were working on. We founf editing to be a long time consuming process as we paid particular attention to detail, so that everything looked just right and to make sure we got the best possible grade that we could.

Filming overall

Overall, we did not have much luck with filming. We found that we were constantly adapting our story due to problems. For example we filmed in a car park, but later found that were not allowed to film there so we had to find a different location to film the remaining shots. We were only able to keep to rough outline of our story board due to these problems we kept encountering. Another reoccuring problem that we had was cars, there would always be cars parked where we would like to film, so we were constantly having to adapt our shots so that you could not see the cars, as it would of ruined the 60's feel of out film. Once we were able to overcome these problems filming went quite well and we were able to get all the shots that we wanted.

Voiceover - New

after much deliberation, we have decided to use one voice over from the criminal drug lord's point of view, explaining what the audience are seeing, instead of using two seperate voice over's explaining who Joe is and what the letter says. we have done this as we have found that we do not have a sufficient amount of time to have both voice over's, so we spent a lot of time producing on e voice over that contains all the relevant information...

"Poor lad. Aint been with us long. Inexperienced. They always are. He don’t know what kinda business he’s in. N this is the last time he’ll lose twenty five grand of my pills and get the rozza’s on my tail. Last time he’ll do anything in fact. You see, this is how things go down in this business. The empty building. The letter. Then BANG!"

Audience feedback - Rough cut

With just one week remaining to complete the editing process of our production, we were given the opportunity to show a rough version of our work to our peers. After screening our opening, we found that everybody seemed to enjoy it, but there were a few changes we needed to apply such as...

-how long the shots were, such as the the spiralling staircase sequence which we cut down so that it went down from 8 seconds to 5 seconds
-what sound effects we used, as we originally had the sound of a gas station bell for the sound of the elevator opening, which we have now changed to the sound of a note played on the triangle
-where our credits would come in, as we didn't have any names of characters, people involved etc. so we decided to spend this week fitting in our credits throughout the opening and deciding when the title 'Our generation' would appear
-the final shot, where the bat falls to the ground in front of the camera, needed to be changed so that the shot appeared blurred and hazy, as the shot was POV and we needed the audience to understand that they were watching the action from character who had just taken a strong blow to the head.

Overall, the rough cut was well received and as a team, we are very proud. Now we can take our audiences comments and incorporate their opinions into our final production.

Editing so far Pt. 2

As well as encountering a few problems here and there when both filming and editing, we were unsure on a few things to include in the final product, such as whether it should be shown in black and white, where and how titles would appear, as well as how much we should cut out from the final shoot. We have decided to use the Who's hit, 'Pinball Wizard' for the soundtarck, as well as using various sound effects to add dramatic effect. In this final week, after completion of putting our footage together as well as the soundtrack and any other fine details, we now are focusing on our titles and some very fine tuning of shot length and jump cuts. We have all contributed to the editing process, Mark, Joe and I, have all added our own individual ideas in the final edit, and the rough cut which we showed back to the class was recieved well, showing our collaboration of ideas and hard worked had paid off... so far!

Editing so far

So far our editing has gone well however we did have some problems due to errors in filming, we had to get our continuity editing just right, we filmed in 2 different locations, which were both car park, which meant we had cut from car park to car park. We had to cut a lot of shots which we had originally out of the sequence as there was obvious lighting issues and it just did not look right. Also time was an issue, we had to go to every single shot and cut it even the slightest bit as it all amounted in the end to quite a substantial time taken off the end, also the clips which we wanted, but were to long we jump cut and this looked very effective.