Thoughts on Final Cut

These are my personal thoughts to my groups final cut:

We thought the choice of music was very relevant and fits in well with the sequence, however, we felt like we could have made the music ourselves to get more marks.

We are aware that the opening sequence is over a minute past the maximum expectancy. I tried cutting parts from the film and making scenes shorter, and I managed to take out a minute but that was all.

I felt like we could have improved the mise-en-scene and camera shots as some of the clothes our character was meant to wear ended up being scrapped because we couldn't get them in time for filming. We could have been more creative and added more camera shots from different angles to decrease the chance of continuous takes.

I felt like the editing went well as we used a unique transition from the sequence to the title of the film.

Overall, I think even though there were some problems with filming and the sequence was not 100% what we hoped, I think our sequence was well edited and put together making an acceptable attempt at an opening sequence to a horror film.

Hidden - Rough Cut 2

This is the second rough cut to our opening sequence to horror film, Hidden.

Editing Techniques

This video shows six different editing techniques our group done.

This includes:

• Match on action
• Graphic match
• Shot reverse shot
• Jump cut
• Cut zoom out
• Eye line match

Prelim Task

This is a prelim task we done at the beginning of the year which includes match on action, shot reverse shots and 180 degree angle.

Soundtrack

The production of our soundtrack from ecss1

This is how we found the soundtrack to our opening sequence. We tried finding royalty free music on the website recommended by the college blog, however we didn't find one that fit into our film. I decided to do some research and eventually found a website, incompetech, which I found the soundtrack "Decay" which suited our opening sequence best as it gives a scary and eerie tone to the sequence.

This is an image of me editing our opening sequence due in on Friday 22nd March

Plans for 2nd Rough Cut

Plan for filming our 2nd rough cut from ecss1

Problems filming and 2nd rough cut

Our group was scheduled to film on Sunday afternoon, we filmed almost everything, we just need a few more shots doing as we had to cut our filming short because it started to rain and snow.

Because of this, I will have to start editing our second rough cut with the footage we currently have. We hope to complete filming by Tuesday or Wednesday, that way we can start editing with everything we have and hopefully meet the deadline of the final cut.

Filming

Our group is scheduled to film the rest of our film tomorrow, that way we have a week to edit for our final cut. This could however have problems as we may not finish filming and we may have t go back and do re-filming which could result in us missing the deadline.

Editing Rough Cut

This screenshot shows the finishing touches of editing the first rough cut.

Call Sheet

AS MEDIA - CALLSHEET from ecss1

Make-up Used

Makeup we used for our filming from ecss1

Props List

Props list from ecss1

These are the list props which we planned to use for our opening sequence. In our rough cut, we used all props except a watch, tie, trousers and a mobile phone. This was because of time management and a lack of correct mise-en-scene.

Recce Shots

Recce shots from ecss1

These shots are from scenes where we filmed our opening sequence. Some were not seen in the film as we did not have time to film there. However, they should be in there by the final edit.

First Rough Cut

This is our first rough cut which was compressed and uploaded on YouTube on the deadline day, Friday 8th March. In this first rough cut, we have included music, credits and editing techniques. There were so problems when editing so it will be improved over the coming weeks.