Editing Week 2 - 15th March

Last week we managed to do alot on our opening sequence - we put all the clips in order, got our music sorted, did the titles and added sound effects to them.


We're aiming to get signed off by Wednesday morning, leaving the triple media lesson on Friday for any snagging etc.


We experimented with changing the order of the clips - instead of having just Georgia talking at the beginning, we tried alternating between clips of  her talking and clips of her walking and getting attacked. We compared the sequences and found we preferred the first and original order as the music fitted perfectly and we felt that the sequence 'flowed' alot better.


Finishing Touches: We need to do our production logo and include it at the beginning of our opening sequence. We also need to improve the title for 'The Safehouse.'

Editing Week 1 - 8th March...

So we've definitely finished shooting our footage - I'm really relieved, it was definitely the most stressful part of the whole coursework experience. Now editing is our priority and I'm feeling more confident that our final sequence will be a success. I'll update my blog from now on, writing down what the group managed to do:

Monday 8th: This was yesterday - we only had a single period to work on our sequences today. We captured some of the footage and had a session on the mac computer with Ryan - he showed us extra effects we could add to our sequences that Windows cannot do.

Tuesday 9th: Today was had two periods of media and half of lunch to edit. We finished capturing our footage and put alot of it together roughly, slowly forming our opening sequence. We had to make sure it had good continuity and we began to think about extra effects we wanted to add in the near future. This week will be an intensive editing week as next week, Despina will not be here due to the Geography field trip.

Thoughts so far...

I havn't blogged on my personal blog in a while - so far on the project, we've done our test shoot which was weeks ago. We used it mainly to experiment with shots and test out some ideas. It wasn't very successful in terms of creating a rough opening sequence but it did make us realise that we needed new actors and that we needed to uncomplicate the storyline a bit.


For the more final shoot, we did change our actors - we used Georgia as our victim and George as our rapist since his leg was better and he was able to do it. This was a really good decision. As well as this, we made our storyline less complicated - it's now just about a girl who was out partying and who gets attacked whilst going back into her flat. The simple storyline means we can focus more on the filming rather than explaining a long story in two minutes.


Our real shoot was the weekend that just passed (28th Feb) and it was definitely more successful than the test shoot in terms of acting and scripting. However we're still unhappy with some of the shots and we're going to do a final final shoot Wednesday evening between 6-9 to get the extra shots we want.