Post 19: Post Production Report

Due to the fact that many of our scenes needed filming in school, this brought us our first obstacle as we had to plan in advance our filming dates as we were only permitted to film weekdays until 6pm, therefore this and ensuring our actor was available became a challenge along with having to find extras, booking the camera and many other difficulties, all these tasks made the process a lot longer than we had originally thought forcing us to prepare things a lot more advance as we got more and more stuck into the production.

Whilst our filming was still in progress, during times we were not able to film, we began to complete the work required in the edit suite, including logging, capturing and editing, meaning on the final day of filming we only had that one last day to complete in the edit suite, helping us with using our time on other parts of the production. Even though we discovered the first two filmed scenes had no sound contained in it, we used this as a learning stage to prevent any mishaps in the future as there was no way of avoiding this within the edit suite.

The first main decision of the editing part of our filming was the music. Carolyn had originally come up with an idea of integrating two pieces of music together in order to produce a better effect on the audience. These two pieces of music contrasted each other as one was an upbeat rock style sound whereas the other was a dark and mysterious sound; showing the two sides to the protagonist of our film, Lucieanne. The rest of the group was shown this change the next day where we all agreed to the outcome as it brought more of an impression to the opening.

Each group member took turns in the edit suite as the filming of our final piece developed, however we faced a few continuity errors which we sorted out through playing around with each shot. The one continuity error we realised when looking back on what we filmed was the scene containing the teacher in the classroom as his position in one of the shots did not correspond with the following shots. The producers first idea was to fade the shot, which at first worked however still didn’t make sense when looking back at it. Although after a discussion with our teacher, the decision to delete one of the shots to go along with continuity came into place.

The remainder of editing needed went smoothly however included cutting down a few shots and playing around with the music to ensure the best possible outcome for our first rough cut.

If anything could be changed, I believe the best thing to adjust would be our planning prior to the filming. This is because as we began to film, we came across a lot of small problems we hadn’t originally thought of causing us to waste valuable time, therefore if we had spent more time together as a team planning, we could have completed the task quicker and focus on other important things.