Once we had filmed our main task we had to edit it in order to make it into a finished media product. This involved a very vigorous editing process. My prelim task was a very basic affair which featured a range of 3 shots and was filmed all in 1 location so we didn’t need to change camera settings to adapt to different light.
On the day of shooting our preliminary task we only had an hour in order to get all our actors we needed and all our shots. Initially we did have some difficulty with our actors as the first one we had hoped to use had to go to an appointment. So we found another actor, although as there were no drama students about we had to just use anyone we could find, this proved quite problematic as they were not particularly experienced in front of the camera. He was also not used to having to learn lines in a short space of time. This meant we had to do a couple of takes of each shot as he kept either forgetting the lines, or stumbling on them. Whereas in the main task we had to think a lot about all the equipment, props and actors we would use and it was all very well planned out. On the shooting day of our main task we had the whole day with only one break so we could get all of the shots we needed. There was also no dialogue in our thriller which meant the actors we used didn’t need to learn lines or any particularly challenging actions or movements.
We also had a very basic knowledge of sound whilst filming our preliminary task. So we just used the camera microphone which provides a very basic level of sound. This microphone was fine for what we wanted to use it for, although it did pick up a lot of ambient sound of people walking around downstairs and slamming doors. It also made some of the speech sound quite “tinny”. In our preliminary task we used all diegetic sound and it was all taken from the time of shooting. There was also no music added, whereas in our main task we had no speech but we also had a lot sound overlaid. In the “real world” shots we overlaid some tweeting birds. During the ghost world shots there were “drone” sounds in order to re-enforce the change in environment and mood. Our main task also featured no speech so we did not have to record any speech on set, although there was one sound effect we used from the set and this is when Ted slams the
Phone down.
Whilst shooting our preliminary task we just ran through the action in three different shots, long shot, close up and extreme close up. This made it a much easier process when it came to the editing process. Whereas in our main task we had planned very accurately what each shot would include, what type of shot it was and the reason for that shot being demonstrated. The editing of our preliminary was very basic and featured fast cuts demonstrating all the different shots. Whereas the editing of our main task was a very long winded process. We used Final Cut Pro and we used a lot of the special effects that this programme contained, such as the “additive dissolve” effect. We also used the “text” feature in order to overlay our titles over our sequence.
Whilst editing our main task we had to consider strongly whether the things we were doing would appeal to our target audience. We did this by asking some of our friends if they liked what was happening in the sequence and if they liked the effects, sounds and action.
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