Editing and Alternative Final Shot

This afternoon I was editing the footage that we had on the computer already and we realised as a group that we were very much over the allowed time for the film. At that point we had only loaded around half of our footage on to the computer and we were still well over the time limit. This meant that I had to do some quite extreme editing. To begin with I loaded all of the footage that we had on the computer on to the software and then we knew how much we had to cut out. The total time came to around 4 minutes.

The task of cutting out 2 minutes was not one that was appealing. Eventually I came up with the idea of adding a new ending and changing the film so that we cut out a lot of the time when it is just of Charles walking to the silent walk. This lost us around 1 minute 30 seconds. We felt that this was a very good start and we then went out and filmed the alternative ending that would make our film more exciting and keep the time down.

This final scene starts when Charles is looking in the woods as he is positive that he has heard something in there. The camera is still showing a point of view shot. When that shot finishes it is followed by the camera swiftly approaching Charles' face in the same motion of someone's head while running. This shot, when edited, will be put in black and white which will match it with the other point of view shots from the follower including the high angle shot and the shot looking through the branches.

This gave us the opportunity to make our film under the 2 minute margin.

Written by Gregor Sharp

Problems Faced With Our Videos

After collecting our videos and sorting them accordingly into the sequences we require, our group encountered a problem with the length of our video and compiling it all together. After adding the videos into the timeline we discovered to our horror that the length was exceeding the time limit of our coursework. The maximum time we could get to was 2 minutes and 20 seconds. With all our videos we were around 4 minutes into the video and hadnt even reached to the climax of the opening.

The idea of cutting many walking parts to get to the explosive ending had to be edit down to 1 minute 30 seconds. We decided as a group to change the ending from Charles entering the michael kirk to Charles actually getting attacked by the Demon, Monster or ghost. This made the opening to 2 minutes excellent.

Here we have the shot of Charles falling to the ground. And then the main title would creep up slowly.

Written By Vidur Bharatram

Cutting and Editing

Today we have finished our filming which was a struggle but a great experience and also it was a great learning experience, it was a great experience for me because I learnt how to use the camera probaly and I also found out about some different kinds of shots that i hadn't heard of before which will help in the exam later on this year, also im not the only on to have benefited from this experience but I'm sure the other two people in my group Vidur and Gregor have also benefited from doing this film beginning.


But now that we have finished filming this now means that we have now really got to get on with our editing and make our film even better with some cool transitions. So for the rest of term and the next we will be sending some long hours in front of the computer cutting and adding.


Written By Charlie Lambourne

December 3rd Filming

Today we got a few more shots in our silent walk area near the Michael Kirk. Greg climbed up a tree to get a few shots from the tree to get the high angles of the ghostly effects that we need!

These shots will be presented on our video in the final task. we are going to use black and white to represent the ghosts percpective on the whole shot.

A few more shots are required to coomplete our task.

Written by Vidur Bharatram

Oceans Productions Logo

Finally having completed the logo, our group decided to call it the Oceans Productions. Using Photoshop again we could create a logo with a wave from an ocean. Textures such as outer glow and drop shodow gave the stylised effect.

There is a touch of fonts of an old school writing. This will be our first step to editing.

Written by Vidur Bharatram

Opening Scene Re-Shoot

This afternoon the group was looking through the footage on the computer and comparing it to other people's blogs. We realised that there were many techniques in both filming and editing that could help to make our opening 2 minutes better.
One of these techniques is to film something and then put it in fast forward when editing. We felt that this would help bring more of a panicy feel to the point of view shot.
Unfortunately we were unable to film this shot today as the actress in our film was unable to do it today.
Instead we re-shot the opening scene of Charles Lambourne waking up. The reason for re-shooting was that later on he meets his girlfriend but in no point in filming do we see him arrange this so we had him wake up and use the phone to arrange the meet. This just connects the parts of the story line, meaning the audience cannot get lost.

Written by Gregor Sharp

Paramount

Paramount Productions is our basis for our production company that we will design ours on. With the help of this we will be successful in desgining a good graphic using photoshop.

Written by Vidur Bharatram