Problems

Unfortunately we have been unable to make any progress on our project for the past two weeks as the macs from our school were stolen, resulting in the loss of all our work. We backed up all of our footage on the system so luckily we do not have to re-film, however, we have to edit the entire project again as it was saved on the desktop.

We are still unable to start re-editing as the new macs have not yet been set up and the software is yet to be installed. We attempted to use the older macs the school have, but it seems that the footage is too large to be used on them.

Progress

In today's lesson we did the final re-shoots which we decided upon due to the feedback we got from our class. We then split the group in order to use our time more effectively, Natalie and Iveta worked on getting the final bits of footage edited into place (they also began to remove the unwanted sound from the sequence e.g copyrighted music we played during the actual filming and they tried to electronically fix the lighting in the beginning scene), Nicola started work on the credits/titles (creating a rough version of what the credits should be styled like) and I worked on the sound (I tried to mix a few tracks together for the party music and I also began to piece together some stuff for the boy and girl getting ready, using two similar tracks where one had a lower pitch than the other, so I thought we could use this during inter cutting to help distinguish between the boy and girl scenes and make it more parallel). This went well as we completed the majority of our tasks, finishing the editing of the sequence, getting an idea for what we want the credits to look like and beginning to develop the sound for the inter cutting between the boy and girl.

Overall this weeks progress has been good and we seem to be doing quite well, all of our focus now I think should be on the music and this is a crucial part to our film and if it isn't correct the film will not work. We still need to complete the credits, however, I feel that this will be much easier and quicker to do than the sound.

Progress

After school today Nicola and I created the distribution logo, we tried to make it fit to the style of the sort of distribution companies we think would distribute our style of film e.g Paramount, Universal. We did this by making it more mobile and interactive (for Example Universal's logo moves around to reveal the Earth) rather than just static words. We also thought it would be quite a distinctive and recognisable logo in that as soon as you saw the plants and the colours especially (since not many other companies use these colours) you would instantly know it was NNIK Productions. I think it is good as it seems somewhat professional and is just the right length for a distribution company logo.

Showcase Feedback

In today's lesson we showed our class the rough cut of our film, here is their feedback.





The feedback was generally positive ,however, the criticisms we received were mainly about the framing of some of Ruby's shots, the lighting in the beginning scenes and the slow motion effect. These comments are very useful as we can easily rectify them now that they have been brought to our attention which should improve of film.

Progress

After school today Nicola, Natalie and I continued editing and replaced all the old clips with the re-filmed ones, we also managed to refine the sequence by cutting it down a lot so that it is now the correct length of time.
We were, however, still unable to find the correct sound for the sequence, therefore we should for now just delete the sound from the clips which we are going to put music over as not to cause confusion. We also have not tackled the credits yet.
But generally I think this went well as we got the main content of the sequence ready for the rough cut showing tomorrow.

Progress

Today we uploaded the footage, whilst we were doing this we also continued working on sound. Then after this we continued editing our sequence to refine and improve on it.

Overall this went well and it created a sleeker looking sequence, however I feel we could have maybe done more during the lesson or after school.

Progress/ re-filming

- Put all of the edited clips together to get an actual completed rough sequence
- I think even though it's unfinished it still looks quite good
- Still struggling to get the right feel to the music
- We need to cut down the sequence as it is currently 3 minutes and it has to be 2 minutes, hopefully this will make it more effective as it will be more fast paced which will keep audience interest, rather than having long unnecessary shots
- Re-filing we well, we got all the shots we needed.

Progress

• half way through editing - going well
• music - difficult
• re shoots on Monday and Wednesday