Final Cut Pro!

We was told to use to improve our film to use Final Cut Por. So me and Chelsea transferd our work to Final Cut Pro. It was our first time at using this software so it was like a test run. When we began to use it it wasnt so hard. However this soon changed when we had to re-order our work. What we didnt relise was if we overlapped our work it would take seconds from it. So when we had unjumbled our work it was much shorter than we had expected, then the seconds it was taking off were being added to another clip so ti didnt make sense. Me and Chelsea were stressing out so much and was going to give up. So afetr the disaster we decided that it was mucheasier to use iMovie. We are familiar with this programme. So finished our editing on this.

Seven Title Sequence

Seven

Previously in the talk about our title sequnece there had been discussions about the title sequnce from the film Seven. As our film and the film Seven are both crime based. Therefore we wanted them to be simimlar. However through the making of this it didnt resemble any of the Seven ideas. So then when it came down to the final stages of editing we started to add more effects. In between each scence we wanted credits and there to be a flash. As simple as this may seem it was not as easy. When we added these effects it didnt look right so we decided not to use them.

I dont want to sound stupid but I found it harder to do continuity than it would. You have to remember so much, like does it fit in and doeds it make sence. I know that you have to do that when making a film anyway but just the word continuity makes it sound more demanding in a way. We also had to remember the 180 degree rule when filming a conversation between two people. It took us an hour and half to make it as it was so hard to get good angles and we kept breaking the 180 degree rule so it didint look right because we had it from two different angles and it distorted the frame.

Luke

Luke is one of 2 boys in our group. Not for much longer though. Hes leaving. This was so out of the blue and unexpected. Hes decided 6th for isnt for him so he has got himself a job and he's on his way. He doesnt lwave until Monday 2nd Feb. So he is in fto help us film on Friday. He has said if we need him again he will help us =]. He'll definately be missed. Although i wont miss We cant let this make us fall behind anymore so were not going to let it. Were going to keep our heads down and get on with it. So now theres just 3 off us left =[.

Editing

We uploaded our film footage on to the Macs today and realised we didnt need half our our footage. We filmed our man Harry getting dressed and putting his shirt on but however we realised he didnt want to get blood on his shirt so we had to change our storyboard to Harry getting undressed. This was the cause of us loosing half of our footage. Although we chnaged it half way through we still got somereally good camera angles and have managed to edit them all in together. It looks really good now. We had a bit of a dilema with the blood. Obviously we didnt want to draw blood from harry we needed to use fake blood. This was a problem as we couldnt find any fake blood at the time of filming so we had to water down red point and use this instead. We all agreed that the red paint substitue for the blood didnt work very wel as it looked to orangy. So we have decided to re-film on Friday and goign to use fake blood this time.

Although we are filming these shots again we are still going to upload the original peice edited. So we can show the process of our mistakes and errors.