Post Production (Editing) Journal

Day one: 
After transferring all of our shots off of our tape and into final cut pro, we watched the clips and re-named them in order to be able to quickly and easily find the clips that we needed when we needed them. Whilst watching the clips back, the modern tracking shot of feet walking up the stairs, had a shadow of the camera, as the sun was very bright  the shadow is very obvious. We decided that we could not fix this problem in editing, so we decided that we would re-shoot the shot later on.

 In the mean time, we decided to play around with a few different effects on Final Cut Pro, to try and find our desired effect for the dream/flashback shots. The effects that we found created our desired effects were:______.  Whilst playing with these effects, we found that the blurring around the edges of the frame actually hid the shadow that appeared in the tracking shot, and so we did not need to go and re-shoot this.

We also put all of our clips together into the correct running order/sequence, and put in a few transitions to test how these would look, and if they reflected our genre.  When we had all of our shots together, we decided to watch the whole piece together, to get a rough idea of how the final product would look. We decided that we would have to re-shoot the last shot of the dream sequence, as, originally, we planned to play it in two different shots, to add to the confusion we wanted to create in the scene, but when watching this back, it just made the shots look disjointed and unprofessional, so we decided we would re-shoot this scene in one, flowing shot. 


Day two:
After we had re-shot the scenes that we wanted to, we uploaded them to final cut pro. Unfortunately, they did not fit in with the rest of the clips: the colouring of, and the lighting conditions were all wrong, and the hair on BAZ was not identical to that of what it had been in the other shots, so in order to keep the continuity that we desired in our film, we decided to keep the other two shots. 

Music and sfx: 
For our music, we wanted to have a very haunting piece of music, that wasn't too fast paced, but then worked up gradually to reflect the increasing action and tension in our plot. We decided to use the song "Newborn" by Muse, but decided to use the instrumental version of the song, as without the words it gave us more of our desired effect, and was far more effective, as the lyrics were not there to draw attention away from the action.  

For our film, we needed a few different sound effects to be added in post production these included:

• Phone ringing
• The voice over for the phone call.

We had to ensure that all our audio clips; both the music and the sound effects, fit in with the visuals, making sure that they flowed together.

Day Three:
Once we had all of our clips and music in place, we wanted to concentrate on the transitions and the effects on the movie, so that it looked effective and like a final product, rather than just clips put together. The effects that we used were:

• ____- for the flashback scene to distinguish the time difference to the audience

The transitions that we used were:

• We decided to use fading in and out to distinguish between the real-life and dream sequences, and this gave a slightly surreal feel to the piece, which helped towards our genre.