Editing Session 4

Editing is a very long process; we foresaw this from our previous editing tasks four our AS projects, therefore we made sure we had filmed additional clips to make our editing easier. Our last lesson we recieved valuable tips from our teacher; he said teaser trailers are under a minute long which is very true from the previous teaser we watched in class and in our spare time. Another valid point he made was that teaser trailers have shorter and faster clips.

We lacked faster/shorter clips and our teaser was over a minute. Our teaser trailer was over 1 minute 11 seconds including title pages e.g. adaptation, production company etc. We had to make our clips shorter, we reduced the time between the three black screens which contained our tagline so the audience won't forget it, we also removed some clips which proved not to be an easy task, sometimes there were disagreements. By doing this the teaser started slow then increase in pace which was our objective during the lesson, now our teaser was 59 seconds. We probably need one more session then we will be officially done with editing.

Editing session 3

We did some more editing today where we started to add our fades and black screens, we also shortened some more clips.

Like I said before Nicholas had a great idea of showing each victim being followed by Cain (Usman Shiekh). We started editing the scenes beginning with my scene which fades into Mark's scene. We also added three seperate black screens showing the tag line.

1st Black Screen - What would you do...
2nd Black Screen - ...if your past...
3rd Black Screen - ...came back to haunt you?

By the end of the lesson the teaser was 1 minute 11 seconds which was good. It was a very productive session as our teaser started to look like a real teaser, our work was greatly commended by our fellow class mates. One person said "hey I love the way you show Usman as a mysterious character who appears in each person's life (me, Nicholas and Mark). This makes Usman look creepy and shady"

Editing session 2

Recently we had our second session on editing, it was hard to get use to the new laptops but thanks to some youtube videos we later got the hang of the new software. We started the lesson by making folders and placing our clips inside of them. From that we were able to put our best clips together.

Once we put our clips together we found out that the duration of the teaser was too long over 1:30 which is not good as from research we had taken previously showed that teasers are meant to be under a minute. We started to delete unnecessary scenes which did cut our teaser to 1 minute 10 seconds excluding the black fades and black screens, adding these would add valuabe seconds to our teaser. Our aim was to make our teaser at least 42 seconds

My colleague Nicholas came up with a very good idea; that the teaser should show the killer following his victims simultaneously, this will portray fear and mystery into our teaser. We haven't finished editing so we may need another lesson to continue.

Editing first session

We started editing but this was a bit difficult because we were using the MacBook Pro which none of my group members have used before. We were experimenting with the new Mac for about half an hour. To help us a bit my teacher showed us iMovie tutorials which was very beneficial to our group.


Here is a example of an iMovie tutorial.

From today's lesson we got to understand and how to use new editing software

Third Day of Filming

Stockwell Pictures

Above are photographic images of the location we used for the day's filming.

Location: in a house (stockwell)

Roles:
Nicholas: Actor
Usman: actor, cameraman
Mark: cameraman, photgrapher

My group have now finished filming all the scenes for our teaser trailer, the final scene we filmed was inside Nicholas's house, where Nicholas (Lee) is being stalked around the house by Usman (Cain). My group came up with many ideas prior to the filming but came up with more ideas while filming at Nicholas's house as they were able to view their filming. Unfortunately I was unable to help out my team as I had lesson during the time of filming. They did tell me some of the shots they took; one shot that sounded interested was a mid angle shot of Nicholas sitting on a couch and Usman walks behind him unnoticed which created the theme mystery and cunningness around our character Cain. Also whilst filming, there was a use of a high angle shot, where we saw Nicholas walking into his estate being watched by Cain, which create a theme of vulnerability around Nicholas.

FINALLY!!!

The Name of our film has been decided. Allocating a name for our film was a bit difficult we came up with:

-Echo of Silence: which was our first choice then we relized that the title had really little to do with our film, when you mention "echo of Silence" it sounds like a film involveing sophisticated sound systems and bugging machines and our film did not involve these props.

-Red Ribbon: This was also a good title but we then relized this won't attract the audience as it sounds a bit dull.

-Silent Pursuit: This title again didn't match with the plot of our film.

But now we have came up with the title 'Silent Footsteps' as it is very relevant to the plot of our film. We have decided on the title, our main focus now is on getting the filming finished and starting on the magazine cover and poster.

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Clothes I wore on the day of filming

My costume which i wore for the teaser trailer included: a black shirt, Black tie, Black Trousers, Black Jumper and a black jacket. I wore this to represent me as a successful young man coming from work. Using the different type of conventions i.e. the work clothes, we showed a different representation of a young black man from that of the media; sometimes the media portrays young people as yobs and thugs but in our teaser trailer I was portrayed as a young successful black man.

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