Food Chain Final product

Seventh and Final day editing

In todays session, we managed to get the thriller completely fixed and finished within the first half hour which was great. What we decided to do now was add in some music, so we browsed through a bunch of different urban CDs to try and find something that would fit our thriller. We searched for quite  a while but all the tracks were too upbeat and didn't fit the narrative. We went back and watched our thriller for inspiration, and this is when our teacher noticed that our thriller was too long! instead of being the standard 2:30 mins it was 3 and a half mins! After noticing this we had to cut out some of the walking shot and therefore cut out some of the less necessary credits. One outcome that did prevail from this is that we found music was no longer neccesery with the new, shorter version. The new shorter version was better in the way that we feel it keeps the viewers attention better. We are happy that we have finished the thriller!

Sixth day editing

Today was a frustrating day for Harry and I in our editing process. Our thriller was pretty much complete and we were putting on the finishing touches and getting rid of minor glitches, but unfortunately Harry worked too hard on trying to fix a strange popping sound that kept appearing in the scene where Jake is on the ground. Unfortunately this lead to the apple colour wheel spinning and we were unable to edit any further, we had also forgotten to save the last session so we have been set back quite a bit. However this is not a major issue and we will fix it next session, however this has taught us to know when to get up and leave something!

Fifth day editing

Today, we continued with adding in the credits. We had a template of another film, which gave us a rough order of the credits that appeared, for ours, we used this template and also inspiration from looking at other opening sequences. We decided to make each credit appear and disappear rather than fading in and out, as we felt this fit our theme better. We also decided not to put any credits on tracking shots, as this would break the flow of the credits. One other thing we chose not to do which was an idea, was to make credits appear as the character walked past, but we decided that this was to playful and that is not what we are going for.

We are now at the point where we have finished all the footage and credits, and we have now moved on to sound, which is proving to be one of the more challenging elements of the editing process.

Fourth day editing

Today Harry and I had another editing session. Today what we mainly focused on was finishing the end sequence by adding in clips of the bullies walking away to the clip of Ethan falling to the floor. Once we had finished this, we went back over the entire sequence and watched it through, pausing at any points we thought that shots should cut quicker. During this process we shortened a few clips, particularly one quick shot of Ethan walking past a garage door, which was a bit long so we shortened it.

By the end of the session, all of our footage was In the right place and we began to start adding in our title credits.

Third day editing

Today we really just focused on the fight scene, which proved to be quite a tricky task. We successfully managed to get the beginning of the confrontation in the quick cut style that we envisioned. We struggled cutting together the two different angles in the clips that involved dialogue because it proved difficult to make this look smooth.

In order to try and solve this problem we have been playing around with the sound to try and make a smoother transition between different clips. We have pretty much almost finished our fight scene now and today was a good solid session.

Second day editing

After our last editing session, we had basically got all the footage set up and ready to edit in order. What we did this session was basically focus on cutting the clips to the right length. We decided that shots like the text message shot should long enough so that the viewer can comfortably read it three times. We also worked on making sure that the clock shot was the right length etc.

Eventually we got on to starting to edit together the fight scene after doing all the walking and classroom shots. We have only just started on this but we have decided to have the walking and classroom scenes long and dragged out and then the fight scene should be really quick and spontaneous with quick cuts from the different angles we shot it from.