Editing Process

Editing process from gabrielledavies15

Film Trailer Feedback

Above is the bullet pointed notes that were gave to us in class feedback. The pink writing is possible ways to improve. The gray at the top is a general point out teacher wanted us to remember - try and add Foley sound.

Restrict Me - Second Cut

First Cut Feedback

We showed the first cut feedback to our two teachers and our peers.

Mr Nickleson: 

• Speed up the pace and use fast cuts to create tension
• Don't Show the Antagonist until the end  

Miss Fair: 

• It's too long 
• Looks like an opening titles sequence 

Peers:

• Cut the news report down 
• Add some more sound 

We plan in the next week or two to look upon everything that we were advice on as we completely agree with the advice given. I personally do feel like music will make a really important difference to our trailer. 

First Cut - Trailer

What Is A Block Credit

The credit block is as the bottom and is the last element of the trailer that the audience looks at because it is in a smaller font than the films title at the bottom of the screen.

The credits acknowledges the cast and crew involved in the production. This is to identify USP's to the audience, this would include production and distribution companies and famous key actors.

The official website for the film may also be on the underneath the credit block, so that the film can generate more influence from other media technologies. 

Script

Sophie and I decided that we wanted to add a scene of a news-report on the 'Masked Man'. Our reasoning for this is due to the fact that we thought there should be something in the advert where it gives the audience more insight on whats going on and why they should be creeped out without ruining whats happened to these girls. We think that a news report would be good for this as it lets you know some of the story but not all of it also for it to be broadcast like that, it must be something big. 

We asked our friend Jack Mellish to do this for us because he has quite a mature look about him compared to our other friends and he would suit the role. I think that he did live up to our expectations and has really helped us adapt our product. 

Recording With my Dad and Sister

When my dad was in France with us as well one weekend my dad, little sister and I planned on recording all the parts with him in it. This soon ended with also my little brother also coming to 'help'. We set off to a different part of the woods, where I could get clear shots of Cerys and the 'Masked Man'.

This became a harder task than I thought, this is because my little brother was either moving around or talking just as I started to record meaning starting again or my little sister was laughing when she was meant to look terrified. It also wasn't helpful that my dad does not particularity enjoy acting. However, 2 hours later we had the shots that we needed.

Recording Schedule Update (18th - 20th)

November 18th - 20th

This recording schedule got pounded to the 10th of December, this is because I did not realize that my dad was going away on holiday so it was impossible to record at his house. Although, lucky for Sophie and I, we were pretty happy with what we already had to we did not need to stress too much about being set back by a couple of weeks.

Idents

This is our company's moving ident logo. This moves up and down to form the company's name 'Flesh Films'. We will use this for the trailer to show that it is out production. 

This is our comanpy's promotion ident logo. This was created to be the same colours as our other logo, however it is a block non motion ident hat we can use for our film poster so that viewers will know that it is promoting our film. 

Recording the Obsession Wall

I recorded the obsession wall as if it was being looked over/reviewed by the 'Masked Man' as if hes looking for what to do next to capture his victim. I did this by panning across it like eyes. i used my Iphone to do this as the quality is really good and the 'Masked Man' wouldn't even have a tripod or equipment himself.

I this that this will be a keen feature in our trailer.

Difficulties Approached

Unfortunately we lost some of our recordings when we came to exporting them to edit. Whilst this is very annoying and stressful lucky I was going back to the same place in France over Christmas meaning I could rerecord a lot of it with my sister.

This means that we will have to take a slightly different turn with the trailer. we have decided that it would included many family videos to show that the whole film in not terrible from the start as many thrillers start quite happy then a twist happens. We also want to take the part of Cerys and Toby talking out of the production and replace it with a news report on the 'Masked man'. My reasoning for this is that with Cerys being so young she is not a very good actress and her lack of emotion in voice would really take away from the productions themes. Also, it would be creepy if we used sounds instead of actual voice, for example the deep heavy breathing of a man behind the looking at the crazy obsession wall. the only thing with actual dialogue would be about the "Masked Man' himself. 

A Day Recording

During my holiday in the South of France my sister, Cerys, and I took a day off of holiday activities to complete some recording. I decided to pick out a costume for Cerys' character. This was a pair of red shorts and a white vest top. My reasoning behind this that the red connotes danger, that her character will be in. However, the white shows the characters purity and innocence.

My Step mum then helped me create an effect of a black eye on my little sister using black, red and purple coloured eye-shadows. 

Cerys and I cycled around the woodland area surrounding our holiday home. We wanted to find somewhere where our risk assessment could be put into place, somewhere avoiding stinging nettles. We then went through a series of ideas that i had in my head to look as if she was being chased or attacked with the camera acting as the attacker. Doing this with a 7 year old proved to be slightly hard and took a lot longer than i expected. This meant that it was starting to get dark and the lighting and setting would look really different, so I decided to stop and we would come back the next day. To do this i had to take photos of Cerys so we could match what she looked like for the next day so the recording would match using continuity editing. 

Creating the Crazy Obsession Wall

This is our crazy obsession wall. We created this on a plain board I got from my music teacher, we then cut out newspaper clippings of missing people stories and printed out photos of both Sophie and mines younger blonde siblings so it seemed as though the 'Masked Man' has had many victims. Other information such as school dates, times and phone numbers and a lock of blonde hair are also shown to prove he is a weird stalker. 

Stereotypes of Our Characters

Credit Block

We created a credit block to add some institutional feature to our film trailer. To create this we used a feature on IMovie. We added one of these to make our production look more authentic, we made up most of the names only using our names once each so that it seemed genuine.  

Recording Schedule Update (4th-6th)

November 4th - 6th

This was really time saving and enjoyable to record, this is because I did not need anyone else there with me, I could work independently making sure that the recording and photos were not rushed, and looked good. I also did not have to redo it 100 times as i was on my own and in complete control I knew just what I wanted.

Story Board

Story Board Layout

We decided to create this plan before drawing up our final story board, this is so that we could get an idea of what order we want the trailer to go in, and to give us a set guideline.