Evaluation

Trunk

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Sound

We only really wanted a single piece of music to play as our titles appeared and to be used as a pace setter for the film, we needed something fast paced and hard we found what we needed on a website called http://audio.lgfl.org.uk as it was all copyright free music. After a while of narrowing down our choices we selected a piece with fast guitars and a good beat. The music fit well once we removed the sound of the cars and other background noise and placed the new audio over the top. Sound wasn’t as key in our production as it may have been in others, but it was useful in setting the pace of our film and giving the viewer some idea of how the film would start and continue.

Film animatic

Editing

Editing was most defiantly a last minute affair because of the vast chasm of technical issues which arose before us. The continually crashing editing software was something everyone endured what others avoided was the problem importing files we had when we attempted to use a digital camcorder for one of our multiple re shoots the computer freaked as we tried to import the files and refused to accept they had any video and just played them back as audio files. We thought we had overcome this when one of the schools IT workers converted the files unfortunately when we imported them this time there was chunks missing, and audio out of sync. All of this resulted in us editing right up to the deadline.

So after hours of hectic cutting, audio adjustments and title creation we were ready to begin to piece together all the sections, unfortunately my partner was “unavailable” for a large portion of the final editing process so, despite his large input on early cuts, the absolute final editing became somewhat of a solo project.

Once the best copyright free audio track had been found and a clever title sequence created we deemed the project to be as finished as we could get it, there was no fancy effects or intricate camera work it was a simple rough independent British film which is exactly what we wanted, that isn’t to say it couldn’t do with some polish but we didn’t have the time.

Feedback on first cut

The first viewing highlighted how far behind our group had been pushed by its technical issues and all we could show was a very rough cut, sound included, so obviously there were a lot of adjustments to be made. Some major points were:

· missing first half of production
· poor sound
· What is the package pulled from the trunk
· Poor titles-lacking in directors names etc
· shots poorly lined up with actors out of shot or cut in half
· blank space issues in one shot

The majority of these issues are purely coincidental of the time at which we had to show our rough cut as it was right in the middle of our re filming (for the third time) due to increasingly frustrating technical issues. Things such as half the production being missing would all be solved when we finished the re shoot, titles and the blank space could easily be fixed with some minor editing. The key issue to deal with was the re filming.

DVD product mock

A mock product design for the DVD