Editing day 4

My fourth day of editing was our final day. I did not have to much to do as most of it was just recording the narration and applying it to our film. I experienced a few problems whilst recording our film because the microphone picked up alot of background noise. To overcome this I recorded after school when there isn't any background noise. Once I had applied the narration the film was finnished and I was able to export it as a complete opening.

Preview of our rough cut

Unfortunately when I had to show our film to our class our sound was not working so I could not show them our film so far with our sound track that I had previously created also I had not yet recorded our narration. This was the main criticisms from the class. Another criticism I received was that in one close up shot of our film our character looked as if she was smiling where I was trying to create a sad feeling. To correct this I swapped this clip for another one which I had previously filmed. Overall the class said that they liked the idea of the the film and would like to see the whole film if it was made.

Editing day 3

At the begining of the day I had the first minute of our sequence which is the falling pictures. I also had the last 30 seconds which is the sequence of shots that will occumpany our voice over. Today I finished editing the animation shots and placed them into a sequence. At first I struggled to get the right speed for the animation however after speeding up the pictures I found the speed which I wanted.

Editing day 2

On our second day of editing I worked on the begining minute of our film. This minute features photographs falling onto a surface. The photos are shown in a chronological order to tell the story of the girls life up to now. I found that the speed that I dropped the pictures was to slow so I had to go through and cut after every picture had fallen.
I also started to cut the pictures for the animation titles. I found this as a long process because every picture had to be edited and cut to the correct size. However I was not to accurate with our editing because I wanated the titles to feel as if a child had created them.

Editing day 1

On our first day of editing I uploaded our clips off of our camera on to the apple macs. Once I had done this I started to edit them into a sequence. After I put our clips into the sequence I noticed that their were two jump cuts which I had to remove. To solve this problem I used one of the close ups I had already shot for a different part of the sequence and inserted it into the space. However I could only do this for one of our jump cuts so in order to correct the other jump cut we had to shoot another close up of the characters face. This proved to be a problem because the new close up I shot had natural lighting where the rest of the sequence was shot in an artificial light. Se I had to go back and use a shot I had taken before.

Production day 3

On the third day I captured the scenes for the titles where we try to create the allusion that flowers are growing. I found this shot difficult as I am not very artistic however once I got the design I was happy with the process was rather simple. One problem I did find was that the card I was using reflected the light from above as I was just shooting it in my dining room. Also to prevent shadow I had to take the pictures on a slight angle this made part of the table show around the edges of the picture however I hope to correct this on photoshop. Overall I believe this day was successful as I got the shots I wanted and I can correct the problems.

Production day 2

In the second production day I shot the first scene which is the sequence of pictures falling onto each other. To ensure I didn't get the same problems as on the first day I collected an extra lamp to balance out the shadow of the camera. I conducted this shot in school as I had some spare time in the lessons. I found that shooting in a classroom limited us as I didn't have a great amount of space, nor time as I found that I had to be quiet whilst other people were filming which slowed our production as I had to wait to discuss our ideas. However overall I found that the day was successful and I got the shots I wanted.