Editing the Video

We had a lot of work to do today as the deadline for editing was a few weeks away. We still had to put together the beginning part of the film so we started by trying to accomplish this task by the end of the lesson. We used the razor tool to cut scenes and we zoomed into each clip so its easier to cut IN and OUT. By the end of the lesson we had put together nearly all of the beginning scenes together! As we wasn't sure on how to use some aspects of Final Cut Pro we decided to look on youtube to see tutorials.

This tutorial really helped us reducing the shaky parts of some of thje film clips

Editing the Video

Finally we had all of our footage so we could get down to editing our film. We started by cutting some unnecessary shots as it just added to time span of the time. We did this through slips, we marked IN and OUT of the clip to take out the necessary part of the clip. We wanted our film to be four minutes long maximum so therefore we had a lot of scenes to cut. By the end of the lesson we cut a few shots and added together the first part of the beginning scene.

Editing the Video

The technician could not upload our beginning scenes onto the Mac as a software was needed. So we decided to work on what we had; the middle and the end of the film. We changed some shots around. For example, we removed some of the shots from the beginning of the film where the door opens and the camera goes around the room. This scene was too long so we decided to cut some of the shots using the razor tool. We only used the shots we thought would show a sense of continuity to the scene.
 

Editing the Video

We still haven't acquired the beginning parts of our footage so we started piecing together the end part of our film. At the moment the video does not look right as a chunk of the beginning is missing. We finished putting together the penultimate scenes today.

Editing the Video

Finally we have started editing. We had to commence editing a week later as our footage on the video camera got deleted. We accomplished a lot today even though we did not have the beginning part of the footage. We pieced together the middle part of the film and cut out numerous unnecessary shots. Today I learnt to use the razor tool precisely and it was very helpful in disectiing the footage.

Editing the Video

I was told to get on completing the film poster case studies as we could not get on with editing our film as someone deleted our film off the camera!

Shooting the Film

Filming is finished!! We shot all the scenes and concluded the filming today. The weather was a bit gloomy today and it had a bad effect on lighting. We looked back on the filming and noticed some of the room shots were a tad bit dark therefore we have decided to re-do a few shots next week on the 24th of November.

Research and Planning - Video

Today I imrpoved my script. My teacher gave some feedback which was very helpful. She said that the script seemed unrealistic. Therefore, I re-wrote the script however I did leave some elements of the old script in the new one. My teacher checked it and she said it was much better.

Research and Planning - Video

This is an improved version of our script. I had been told by my teacher to to improve the first scene of our script, which is the letter, as it sounded too formal and was not realistic due to the language which was utilised. Therefore, I took my teachers advice and decided to improve the first scene. In this improved version I have used less formal language and made it very conversational to give the effect of realism in the letter.

 

 

Short film script (Improved)

Scene 1:

Character 1: Honey I’m home! (Heads up the stairs)

Character 1: (Finds letter and starts reading it) Dear Tom, you may have noticed that I’ve not been myself lately. Well there’s a reason why I’ve been acting up. A few weeks ago I was diagnosed with cancer. This broke my heart into pieces. To be honest it’s not fair at all for you to be living with me and my illness. Things happen for a reason, maybe we were just not meant to be. The times we’ve had together were amazing and I will never forget all the things you did for me, you made me the happiest girl in the world. I guess destiny had other plans for us. I’ve got to go now. Just remember I will always love you, Emily. xxx

…..

WHAT!

Scene 2:

Character 1: WHY! (Punches the dashboard in anger)

Character 1: (In the car) How did I not realise what we she was going through! This is all my fault.

(FLASHBACK SCENE 1)

Character 1: Honey wake up, its past 12. We need to go.

Character 2:  Please baby 10 more minutes, I’m really tired.

(FLASHBACK SCENE 2)

Character 1: Hospital?! Oh it must be nothing, just them normal women things.

(FLASHBACK SCENE 3)

Character 1: Honey what are these pills?

Character 2: (Grabs pills off him) It’s nothing! Don’t worry about it

Scene 3:

Character 1: This all makes sense now.