Preliminary Task - Editing

For the editing part of the preliminary task we only made some slight changes. We had a shot of the angry characters hand banging down on the table, we decided to take this shot out because we couldn't manage to get the right cuts for it to fit smoothly into it. Near the start we also had in our animatic that we would have a close-up shot of the angry characters face to show their expression clearly to the audience but we had to make this shot really short as we filmed it free hand which when we came to edit, was very shaky. Other then these we stuck to our animatic as we really liked what we did. In an over the shoulder shot to show the innocent characters face, the tripod was left in the shot (we didn't realise until we came to the editing process). The mise-en-scene was how we wanted it to be apart from the lighting. The lighting when filming was pretty dark and we wanted it to be a bit more clearer. We tried to change it by switching on the lights but unfortunately this did not make a difference. Our props that we had (table and chair) worked well but the only problem we had was that we wanted it to look less like a classroom so we tried to move the other table and chairs as much as we could but as we had little option where to film this was pretty impossible. The expressions on our characters face weren't how we planned them to be exactly. The angry character didn't portray that he was that angry and the innocent character didn't show that she was that scared. This was quite hard for them as they were not actors and did the best they could to act how we wanted them to. We achieved most of the cinematography that we chose in our animatics and when filming all the shots worked well. the only problem that we had was the close-up shot of the angry characters face, which I mentioned earlier could have been achieved better if we didn't have the character walking along whilst trying to get a close-up.
The new continuity shots that we had all achieved the rules how they are meant to be filmed and what they are meant to show. This was helped by the editing part to make it fully look how it is meant to. We decided to keep the music that we had in our animatic to put as the backing music as we thought it went really well with our story line. We editing it on garageband so that it would fit the exact time that we wanted it to and we also had it fading out for the shots with the dialogue in it so the audience can fully hear what the characters are saying. We met the brief exactly as our story is a character opens a door, walks across a room, sits down opposite another character and exchanges two sentences. We did exactly this and even though the dialogue isn't a lot so it doesn't really explain to the audience what is fully going on, we still met the brief. Doing the preliminary task had made me understand different shots and how to use them effectively for the audiences purposes and how to edit the shots effectively.

This is our finished task.