I
am quite satisfied with the final result of my film as it followed
the Film Noir style that we are supposed to be following and made the
time limit, which was something that I struggled to reach due to the
lack of footage that I had available to use. The editing took more
time than I originally expected, due to my only previous editing
experience being on iMovie, which barely took any time at all.
If
I could re create the movie, I would tweak quite a few things. There
were many repeats of the same shots in my film due to my group and I
not taking enough footage to begin with and then never getting around
to shoot new scenes and reshoot the old ones. There are many shots in
the film that I am not overly fond of due to their how they have
captured the things in the scene. Things such as the rule of thirds
could have been used better, to make some of the shots less awkward.
If I could re do the music, I would need more loops as the ones that
are available either don’t fit the genre of the film, so if they
were used, the film might gain a comedic feel, and that would pull
the film away from the Film Noir style that we are supposed to be
creating. There are also awkward parts of the dialogue that are too
low, so I would re record them so I could increase the volume of the
backing track.
My
film didn’t end up very much like how I originally envisioned it…
Or how I imagined it the next time… Or the time after that… But
that’s beside the point; it still ended up pretty well. When I
first completed editing the film, it didn’t really make sense to
me, but that may have been an effect of staring at a screen for a few
hours… After watching anime… But when I watched it again the next
day, it made a little sense, but the main problem for me was that I
knew what was happening and how it was happening, but I was trying to
watch it from someone who has no idea of what it is about before
watching it’s point of view. Doing this put me off quite a lot as I
was worrying that no one would understand what was happening and
think that the film was too jumpy as the film consists of mainly
flashbacks. I got a few other people to watch the film and found out
that it made sense to them and I was just over thinking things. When
I was creating the soundtrack for the film, I was unable to find a
the type of loops that I was after for the interview scenes, but I
ended up getting some inspiration from the Sherlock
soundtrack
as it has the same style as what I was trying to create, and it
didn't cause the soundtrack to be awkward.
The
film conveys the chosen genre well as there is a little bit of
suspense and the editing has made it look like it is of the right
genre, but I feel as if there are things missing from it, as if it
barely follows the track of the set genre. I don’t really know how
to explain it, but something just doesn’t seem right about the
films genre.
I
didn’t have all the necessary shots to complete my film, which is
why many shots got repeated, slowed down and chopped up. Reshooting
scenes and shooting new ones would have made the editing process a
lot easier, and would have allowed the film to be closer to the five
minute mark, which would have allowed me to bring some more sense
into the film.
My
group worked quite effectively, but there was a lot of unorganisation
during the planning, production and post-production process, but
other than that, we worked together quite well.
I
believe that I used Final Cut Pro quite effectively as I has all of
the footage split into bins that had the footage from scenes their
scenes. I also has a sequence per scene, so that nothing overlapped,
and there wasn’t too much going on for Final Cut to sort out. When
I completed editing all of the shots and scenes, I created a new
project and copied all of the footage across to it. This prevented
the problem of Final Cut becoming too slow while I was trying to add
the final touches to the project and helped because the project that
I has that contained all of the sequences for the scenes was becoming
too slow to work with.
The
other technical problems that I faced were quite simple and easy to
fix. At first there was a few files that hadn't been converted to AIC
format, so we had to go back and re convert them. Then we found out
that we didn't have certain shots that we needed for our movies, so
we had to go back and find the all and convert them as well. There
was a point that I forgot that I was supposed to keep the shots in my
USB in one place as Final Cut hyperlinks to the file locations, so I
moved a few of them to a different folder and all of the moved
footage went offline, which was quite easy to fix. The next problem
that I faced was when I was trying to copy the scenes across to the
project that I would bring the entire movie together in I found out
that something had changed the format of the sequence for scene two
from AIC to DVC, so the size of sequences frame was smaller than the
rest of the movie. I tried changing it but was unable to, and due to
it being the weekend at the time, I was unable to ask Mr Andrews for
help, so I decided to just redo the scene which was a pain. The
problems that I had through the project were just simple mistakes
that were easy to fix.
During
the editing process I honestly didn't use our original storyboards or
shot lists, as they were nothing like how I wanted the film to end
up, and also wouldn't end up getting close to the set time limit. I
only used the rough edit as a general guide for how the interview's
conversation was supposed to flow.
The
EDL and sound design templates weren't much help to me as I only had
a general idea of what I was doing with my film and constantly
changed the order of things, so I kind of just went with the flow but
ended up happy with the result.
When
it came to time management... Well, lets just say that it wasn't my
groups strong point. Last term we worked quite well and were ready in
time when it came to filming, but were still doing last minute
editing on the day that the rough edit was due. Then this term I was
away for the first two weeks, and thought that they would have been
able to go off by themselves and do extra filming for the scenes that
were set at Bella's house, but when I came back they hadn't done
anything. Then the next weekend that we could have done shooting,
Bella was moving and the rest of us already had plans for the weekend
that we couldn't cancel on. So this project we were left with barely
enough footage to make a decent film.
This
term I haven't been posting much about the editing process on my
blog... I think the only post about this terms work is my EDL... I
know I should have been posting regularly but I didn't, and I have no
excuse for it. There isn't much evidence to support my work which
will probably bring my marks down, but it's too late to fix that.
Anyway,
overall I think that the editing of my film was a success, although
there were a few problems that I had to deal with, it ended up being
quite good.
