Editing and Re-filming

Last week we planned to just concentrate on editing the film, but while editing we realised that some parts of the film we weren't happy with and therefore we resulted in re-filming parts.

Time wasn't on our side this week, so I suggested that I would stay at school, continue editing and finding suitable music, while Yeganeh and Chloe go off and film the rest of our Public Information Films. This worked well because all of us had something to do and they got back in time for me to edit what they had just captured.

I have always found editing quite hard because of the precision aspect of it and today really put my skills to the test. Relating back to my research report, I found that the public enjoy seeing unique ideas in PIF's, so I edited the film so that the pace changed even though the music didn't and added in echos to emphasise the heavy thoughts in our victims mind.

We also asked for feedback from Mr Durran to see what we could change or add, this was useful because it made us see our film from a different perspective.

Next week we are watching each others films so far and I think that this would be a  good opportunity to get feedback from people in the target audience, in order for us to change parts.

More Filming and Editing!

This week we continued filming our Public Information Films. We were one member short in our team so Yeganeh and I had to adapt our plans for this week, only slightly though.

For this week we were aiming to watch back the film we had - to see what else was left to film, and begin to edit. But, because Chloe wasn't there we knew it would be hard to transport the filming equipment safely on our bikes to and fro different locations, so we adapted and came up with the plan of filming only at school but then asking to take out the filming equipment and film outside of school in our own time.

For the rest of the day we began editing the film we had.
The style of film we were going for was a continous shot - so the editing part of it is very important.
Yeganeh and I found it difficult to edit it in a continuous shot because we had to be precise otherwise the viewers would notice the editing.
Later we realised that the editing part of this would take a lot of our time, so we made a plan to not to anymore filming for the rest of the time we had left and just focus on editing and music.

The music part of our Public Information Film is very important because we weren't including much dialogue and therefore relied on music.
It took us a while to find a music genre to suit our film about Running Away, and we still haven't found the right one! So this will be one of our many tasks for next week.

Mr D's comment

Good post, Georgia. Illustrations?

Running Away - Filming

In today's lesson we began to film for our 'Youthoria Project', our aim was to get as much filming as we could done so that next week we could focus on editing. But, things didn't go according to our 'Shooting Shedule Sheet' because we didn't realise how long it actually takes to film our public information films so we ended up not getting to film everything we planned to.  
In resolution to this we decided to ask if we could take the camera outside of school to film.

While shooting I thought it was organised quite well because we each got to film, using different composition techniques.
But, a problem we came across was at the end of the day we saw that we had 16 minutes of footage and we were hoping for the final product to be around 3 minutes so editing for next week will be a difficult part of the process.

During the filming and planning process it forced me to 'think outside the box' because PIF's of this time are quite creative, for example one of the ad's I researched was shown as a phone call, between the victim and a person helping her.
When we got to the filming we saw that it's harder to get all of our creative thoughts onto film so we then had to quickly adapt our ideas - which ended up taking time.

The inital idea was that we would film our main character walking home from school but we didn't want to face the hassle of going into all the shops we would possibly film so we again had to adapt and take out that chunk of film. Also, we conisidered in to be quite uneccesary to show her walking home; so simply just cut it to her leaving school and then opening the door.

Next week, we aim to spend half the day finishing our filming and maybe even re-doing bits and then the other half editing and finding music to go with the mood of 'Running Away From Home'.