We created a logging rush to help the group decide what footage we wanted to capture what what shots did not work. This speeds up the process of capturing as we do not need to capture everything we filmed we can just captured the shots that are down on the logging rushes as shots that we are keeping. This also makes it easier to edit as we wont have to take up time deleting shots we do not need. Logging rushes helps the group to be organised and efficient when the editing process begins
As soon as we captured our first piece of footage we knew that there was some re-filming needed, this problem happened because when we looked in the camera the natural lighting did not look too bad but when we uploaded the footage on to a computer we realised that the colours were too bright. So we came to the decision that we needed to re-film this problem happened as we did not have a dimmer set on the camera. Another problem that we found with the same scene was audio problems as it kept cutting out and we lost sound in certain parts of the footage. After taking time to review the footage we worked out the it was better if the sound crew did not walk along side BILLY as this was causing the loss of audio. When we re-filmed these scenes they worked they were the right colour and we had no audio problems
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Quite a lot if our shots were dark so we shared out between the group who would be changing what shots to make them brighter. To make the shots brighter we used a lighting effect on the editing software this took some time as we had to make sure the effect did not make the footage look too grainy and artificial another problem was getting the lightening effect in the right area as we found that it would make some areas brighter then we wanted it to be and some areas would not change at all. This took some time to get right on certain shots and it need some playing around to ensure the lightening looked professional
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| This is screen shot of changing the lighting |
Audio was also a problem that appeared in a couple of our shots, in one scene the footage was perfect but the audio kept cutting out and was too loud so we used the audio from another shot and layed it over the top. Luckily this worked well and the movements of the the actress fitted in with the new audio. We also recorded a soundtrack to go over the top inspired by UK film council short films, this sound is like an atmosphere sound that insinuates a emptiness feel, as a group we felt this sound would work well with the vibe we wanted the audience to feel.
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| Screen shot of changing sound levels |
One of our post production decision was to use jump cuts in the running scene, we decided on this as we wanted to break away from continuity and create our own style within our short film influences. Jean Luc Godard's film Breathless used jump cuts in the "Patricia in the car" sequence and this influenced as to use them too as well as still using the naturalistic style Truffaut's '400 Blows'. We felt that the jump cuts were needed in our running scene, we wanted the audience to feel that our main character BILLY is rushing he's desperately trying to run away. Although the jump cuts speed up the running sequence I feel it gives the pace that is needed to the sequence to make the audience emphasis with BILLY's thoughts and the jump cuts do this by jumping within the same location, showing the extent to where he is running too.
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