Final Edit

The film has been fully edited and so I thought I'd go over some of my thoughts of it and the problems  that I encountered whilst editing. I am overall very pleased with the footage, there weren't any huge problems just a number of small issues that could have been avoided, such as the image having too much gain, however overall I feel I recovered from them quite well. One of the issues was lighting, which changed quite abit on the day of filming. Though we didn't notice how badly it was changing, this has taught me not to trust my eyes when it comes to light and that bringing a light meter is a very good idea when filming. Two of the shots were simply too dark to use, I suspect that an ND filter may have been left on from a previous shot possibly. To over come this I decided to re-shoot to these scenes.

Another problem was encountered when attempting to edit the scenes that were re-shot, on the day the headphones were not working and so we tried filming without it. When I looked at the footage the background noise was so loud that the dialogue from the characters was very hard to hear. With not enough time to organise another re-shoot I made the best of the footage by dubing it with the audio from the original footage, which was too dark but the audio was fine. This worked well though with more time I would have prefered to re-shoot again and I have learnt not to simply trust the audio will be fine, but make sure it will be by using working headphones, which save alot of time and effort.

For the look of the film I'm going for a very high saturation, party because I like the look and also because I'm experimenting with having the saturation drain away I feel it would be a more effective if the change was as drastic as possible, so going from very high saturation to low saturation is preferable. Originally I was using two layered shots and manipulating opacity, however after meeting with Stu I was shown how to do the same effect much easier and with only one layer.

Overall I'm very pleased with how the footage turned out, depite any problems that I encountered, and now I need to sort out paperwork, the correct formats that are required and editing it into the full portmanteau.