First of all we took our footage to the edit suite and captured our footage. We then completed the logging rush and then labeled what shots we wanted to use and what we didn't need , it became clear that we made a mistake and captured all of our footage this way it made the editing process much longer than we expected. As we completed our filming in one day it allowed us more time to complete our logging rush document. Once it was completed we used this document to select specific clips from our project and place the shots in the timeline. Our aim was firstly, to produce a rough cut of our opening sequence so we could visualise our project then make alterations where we felt they were needed. Once we had completed our rough we exported it and showed it to a focus group.As a group we knew our project wasn't perfect and understood what changes we needed to make however we showed it to a focus group to see if our concerns matched theirs, Or if there was any added concerns what we hadn't picked up on. Our rough cut included selected shots with added titles. All what was left to do after was perfecting our opening sequence with the added help from our audience feed back, until we as a group was happy with our opening sequences.
Whilst editing we encountered several problems which in some cases increased us with more work, we wanted our project to still fit the genre of a romantic comedy. As a group we put in allot of extra hours to make sure our project met the conventions it needed. We feel as a group that we are happy with our over all, opening sequence and our editing techniques however there was some mishaps which transpired in the process of editing.These included, parts of our footage became clear that the camera work was not steady however we had to uses these shot because we didn't have any others. the only way possible to over come this problem was to cut the clips down as much as possible so it wasn't notable to see how the shot wasn't static. We also had another shot where the camera work was not steady. This occurred because the camera was focusing on a phone and as our character JENNY moves the phone the camera has to pan down to see the phone again. With this problem we needed to slow the shot down so the audience could read the texts and emails from this we then lead this into a jump cut to see it clearer once more. Although this was negative at first in the end it worked out well due to our genre. We made these shot into jump cuts and it went well with the music.Although some of our shots don't look natural and flow together we wanted our project to fit in with the genre and be upbeat and flow with the music. As majority of our opening sequence display Our character getting ready we wanted the filming and editing to be fast beat jump cuts to explore JENNYS hectic lifestyle through a sort period of time and to receive the right conventions of the specif genre of a Rom-com.
In majority of our shots we had to use artificial lighting to produce the same lighting throughout the house.It soon became clear that some of our shots were quite dark and therefore created shadows. Some of the scenes went from light to dark and raised the problem of the shot and feel of the opening sequence to look unnatural and therefore created shadows.
From our feed back it became apparent that one of our titles was displayed with fridge magnets however it wasn't clear to the audience what it said so as a group we decided to re shoot this. as a group we are happy because in the editing we used special effects to speed up the fridg magnets.
After this we then showed our final cut to the same focus group to receive information about our opening sequence and to see if it had improved from before.
However after exporting our Rough cut and final cut we received an email from YouTube, stating that our music was possibly owned by 'Go digital' therefore this created repercussions for us as a group. We got our music off a UN copyright CD. However it seemed that the CD was currently seven years old. Consequently we had no other choice but to change our music at the last minuet. We feel as a group that our Previous music flowed and kept the opening sequence exciting and interesting whereas we feel this music now is continues and can be seen as boring however it fits with the genre of the film and meets the exam board requirements so therefore we are happy with the outcome.
This is our Rough cut of our opening sequence.
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| This shows us adding in a cross dissolve because it conventional with the genre of our film. |
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| This screen shot represents us dragging our captured footage into the correct area i.e the timeline ready to edit. |
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| This screen grab represents what our shots looked like before we altered the lightening. |
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| This shot represent us altering the lightening tecquinies as we wanted our shot to match throughout our opening sequence. |
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