POST PRODUCTION: The editing process. 10/04/15

Colour Correcting 

I did most of the colour Correcting, and I thought it was absolutely paramount that all shots were the same colour. This proved difficult in the scenes that were shot at dark, such as when Jake is walking home. In the end, it was so nearly impossible to receive the correct colour, that we in fact ended up cutting the two most problematic shots within scene 2 under Helen's instructions. Furthermore, once rendering the colours often looked different than when they were edited in Premier, so that enhanced our decision to cut these two shots.



Duration:

As our film is only three minutes, this proved to be a LOT shorter than we first anticipated. Therefore, we scripted a lot more dialogue than we needed.
Therefore, this created a lot of problems because conversations had to be cut and still flow. When cutting the scenes, such as the 'Bromance' Scene (Scene 4), I had to mix up what we originally thought would be a continuous conversation, and sometimes even revert back to answers from previous questions that the actors asked each other. This was very challenging, especially in the scenes with a lot of dialogue so as a result of this the storyline changed a bit. The story changed from a Rugby player always becoming second best and working incredibly hard to achieve his goals, to a rugby player receiving a lot of unnecessary cruel pressure from his girlfriend- ending with forgiveness. I thought this slight alteration of the storyline to overcome the problem of struggling to stick to the film times boundaries was in fact very sensible and a mature decision by the team to make.

 Sound:

Editing the sound was important, as we needed to make a decision to include music or not. The first problem that came up was the issue of Copywrite, and receiving permission for music for our film. As this was not an option given the time scale, we searched on Youtube for Free music. This proved to be quite successful because there was a large variety of free music following all genres and moods- such as romantic music, calming music, tension building and exciting music. This large variety provided lots of possibilities for us. However, upon choosing our appropriate music, as the scenes were so short given time time restrictions, the music was eratic and confusing to listen to, and in fact having a negative result on our film rather than enhancing it. Notwithstanding this information, we decided against music and just using the dialogue as our soundtrack. 
Secondly, the wind in the last scene was an extremely big issue. The high noise caused by the wind in face completely drowns out the dialogue in scene 5- resulting in almost complete confusion about how the story ends. This was very disappointing and due to the dealing being so close, there was no time to re film it. This is very unfortunate as if we had managed our time better we could have re filmed this scene, but it is not possible so if we did the project again we would remember this problem and overcome it by not filming outside on the windy days. Or, this could be overcome with clip-on microphones which localises the sound from the actor's mouths, rather than using the microphone on the camera.