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Hicccups

During  this project we did come across a few sticky patches along the way that we did overcome through teamwork and compromise some which were admittedly due to lack of preparation but others that were out of our control. For example we had to change our story board twice due to the fact that due to traffic I couldn't make it to one of the storyboard creation tasks, we had a strict deadline because Victoria had a lesson after lunch and needed to be back at college before 1:15 with all the equipment so they had to proceed on without me adding a green stick man to represent myself in places where I would have been if there which proved to be comical during our pitch to Marissa unconventional in terms of a serious project. Then to make matters worse on the first day of filming as a group we forgot to bring a physical copy of the story board we had presented and thus had to take time in creating a new one based on our new shots. In the end our second storyboard proved to be better than the first however if we'd taking the proper precautions in terms of organization we could have saved a great deal of time that we could have invested into editing or perfecting the soundtrack of blogging.

Editing/ Finishing touches

After a significant amount of time attempting to perfect our ideas, going out to film and bringing footage back and so forth we began to realize that due to timing and the strict limit of how long our open can and should be we had to cut out half of our ideas for a stylized opening similar to SE7EN's. Therefore we were unable to make use of the props we originally wanted like the passports, news paper cut outs etc and focused all of our energies into perfecting our narrative with the bag swap idea. in the end we had to improvise using left over and thought to be "useless" shots to make up for the stylized shots we were now missing. Thanks to Ellie's brilliant editing skills and background in film studies she managed to use a number of effects (Red colored and deliberate shaken shots.) to make our shots look as weird and distorted to match the soundtrack I created using Soundtrack pro.

Research | Using Soundtrack

We tested out sounds in soundtrack pro in order to understand the use of background music and foley sounds.

I used the tracks to overlap sounds and see what works and how they interact with each other and the volumes of each in order to create my own track with the provided sounds. This was very useful when it came to doing our own soundtrack for the opening because we understood how the program works.

Editing | Effects

We used a red effect for our stylised shots throughout our narrative this was achieved by 

I think this is effective because it adds a mysterious and confusing effect to the intro, which is how we want the audience to feel so that they are interested and want to watch more of the film. It's used to draw them in and add a difference to the opening.

Editing | Titles

We've looked around at different films and the title sequences within them, seeing as most of our work is inspired by Se7en we've look at that the most.

We particularly liked this style because its very different and grabs the audiences attention, it makes them look at the title and read it. Also, the stylised effects makes it seem very creepy and on edge.

Filming | Shoot 1

We went out into central London to do our first shoot.

We were able to get all the stylised shots we needed to edit into our narrative later on.

I think it went very well, we got more shots than needed in order to be able to cut some and use different ones without having to go out and film more if we didn't have enough. Also, we were able to use the tripod successfully and get some steady shots.