I have now been editing for 2 weeks and have managed to get together a rough cut that I have also now shortened to around 3 minutes. I have mainly focused on the opening scene - the murder in the woods. This scene is now 1 minute longer so, depending on the rest of the opening, will probably be shortened by another 5-10 seconds. This scene also still requires form close editing that I will complete when I have the music in place as well so that the rhythm of the music fits with the rhythm of the editing.
So far I have been using the 50s TV effect on final cut pro on all of my clips, this has further emphasised the style of the film and the time period it is set in. However, having played around with the colours and saturation of one clip I found that the black and white may look better and more stylish if I just turned down the saturation of each clip to turn it black and white. I will experiment with these two ideas and audition clips so that I can decide later on which method I will use.
Overall so far I am happy with how my editing is going and the footage that I took, so I will continue to edit the whole sequence and will start to find a piece of music that I can use.
Friday 25 January 2013
Thursday 10 January 2013
christmas filming
Over the Christmas holidays I was planning to film two of my locations for the opening, the woods and the street shots both of which would be filmed in Yorkshire. The filming for these locations remained on schedule and I filmed over 3 days.
On the first day I began my filming at around 2:00 leaving about 1 hour until it started to get dark having decided that for the running shots I would film while it was still light to make it easier for the actors (especially Simon who had to wear dark glasses). I will probably darken these shots in Final Cut Pro X when it comes to editing. My second day of filming in the woods took place when it was already dark so that I could do the silhouette shots and other shots that needed the darkness for the shot to work during the filming.
The third day of filming was the street shot which took place in Kirkbymoorside. This location was the hardest because it was on a road so there was a frequent problem of cars and people walking past, this meant that the filming took longer than it should of here and there are quite a lot of extra/unusable shots.
I then managed to also film my wimbledon location shots over the holidays before I had planned to. The shots for this location we very simple and therefore it didn't take long to film, and now that I have all the film it will be much easier for me to start the editing.
Overall I can say that the filming was quite time consuming, it was quite tricky at first getting to grips with each step to take for each shot. However, by the time I did my 4th day of filming in wimbledon I was much faster and more efficient at getting each shot done as it should be.
On the first day I began my filming at around 2:00 leaving about 1 hour until it started to get dark having decided that for the running shots I would film while it was still light to make it easier for the actors (especially Simon who had to wear dark glasses). I will probably darken these shots in Final Cut Pro X when it comes to editing. My second day of filming in the woods took place when it was already dark so that I could do the silhouette shots and other shots that needed the darkness for the shot to work during the filming.
The third day of filming was the street shot which took place in Kirkbymoorside. This location was the hardest because it was on a road so there was a frequent problem of cars and people walking past, this meant that the filming took longer than it should of here and there are quite a lot of extra/unusable shots.
I then managed to also film my wimbledon location shots over the holidays before I had planned to. The shots for this location we very simple and therefore it didn't take long to film, and now that I have all the film it will be much easier for me to start the editing.
Overall I can say that the filming was quite time consuming, it was quite tricky at first getting to grips with each step to take for each shot. However, by the time I did my 4th day of filming in wimbledon I was much faster and more efficient at getting each shot done as it should be.
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