Post production

After filming, you upload the footage you have and begin to edit, by edit, I mean cutting, re-arranging, adding sound, etc. I have learnt all of this through the media course, my skills have improved massively considering I had never used the premiere program before. I had no idea how fitting footage together worked and I had no idea how to cut either.

When you get to post production, you often come across mistakes that you have made when filming and often realise that there is some footage that cannot be used. The most common example of this is accidentally utting a characters head off when filming. For example the top of the shot is there forehead so the whole character is not in view. This is excepted if it were to be an extreme close up where you only see their emotions of their face but if you are filming a mid or long shot and you are showing the character but cutting the top of their head off because of bad camera work, then this is obviously seen as a problem.

Here is one of the problems that I found when looking through all of the footage that other members of my team had filmed. Mistakes like this are common but are so important that it makes shots like this shot end up wasted as they cannot be used. Half of the character is cut off (the side of him) it is important when filming that people are aware that if you are going to film a character then you need to make them the priority, another priority in this shot if the motorcycle, the bottom of the motocycle is cut off and it is not in the middle of the shot, this is so important. This means that the meaning created to the audience is not correct, a shot like this would not create tension for the audience. The mise-en scene is ruined in this shot as there is no clear definition as to why the character is wearing hat costume, what does the costume contribute to his character, why the motorbike is there and what meaning that creates. These mistakes are easily made but easily avoided also. As a group we went through all of the mistakes within the major shots that has problems. We realised what we were doing wrong and what we could do to help each other with future filming.

One of the problems we faced especially were with out pan shots for our sequence. We felt as if a pan shot would build tension for our audience. Although it was not too long, it was still longer than other shots, showing a pan would present to the audience that the specific character in view is important. We tried so hard to get the pan shots completely perfect however it was extremely difficult. Most of the pan shots began very well but as it was difficult to keep the continuity of the same shot, it was often the case that it went well but towards the end, whoever was filming, moved the camera slightly faster than they had been before ths point in the shot.