POST PRODUCTION: Editing problems and how we overcame them 10/04/15

• Credits and Titles:

Although titles at the beginning and credits at the end of our film would enable it to look more professional and authentic, after much research and self-tuition this proved to be too difficult for our team. Callum worked on this in particular to try and overcome this, as he was very talented at the titles in the program 'After Effects' but came to the conclusion that in order for us to include the credits they must have been imported before any editing took place. By lack of tuition on this, we were unaware that text must be imported and can not be created on Premier Pro itself, so this was not possible to do. If we had included credits, it would be a roll of our names on the left hand side of the wall on the final scene so as if the names are actually projected on the bricks in the scene.

• Wind noise:

During the Final scene, the wind was absolutely atrocious. We had no other clips to use, and no time to film any more. The film ending is obscured by the sound of the wind as it is difficult to hear what the actors are saying over the noise. The true ending was to have the girlfriend asking for forgiveness, and Jake saying yes and hugging her; but this is very unclear. If we had more time to film it again, we would choose a day to film with much less wind, use a clip-on microphone for the actors to wear on their chests, or film inside. There was no way to overcome this unfortunately, as all the sound is one track and over-dubbing would look amateur and would be unsuccessful, so we just increased the whole track volume in order to hear the dialogue- even thought this did increase the sound of the wind too.

• Interest

Our film became very 'slow' feeling towards the end. The movements appeared to be dragging and interest was being lost- therefore the audience were in danger of becoming bored. To overcome this, we cut out all of the slow transition scenes, the unnecessary establishing shots and the boring walking shots to keep the pace fast and sustain interest.

• Time Management

Naturally, as we came close to the deadline everything was rushed. Therefore the final (and sometimes most critical parts) were rushed in order to hand it in on time. A large part of the problem is that the technical support room where the equipment is kept is only open weekdays 9-5, so there was a lot of rushing of films to hand the camera back in time. On repetition of the project, we would manage our time much more efficiently and also we would be quicker to complete process due to experience from this project.