final piece

Our final media piece was due in on the 1st April. Our piece would have been ready for this date, but unfortunately amber (main editor) became ill. We rescheduled for completely finish it for the 6th April, which meant we had to come into school during half term. This was the perfect opportunity we needed to try boost up our grade, which meant we couldn’t afford to waste our time.


Amber and I started on the main problems which needed improving. I had previously already fixed the titles, which meant that already used nearly a minute of the time so we got to work on the second minute, which after our first draft discovered needed the most work done to it. We elongated shots and replaced a few and the piece slowly started to piece back together again. We chose to take out some of the shots with the different locations and different couples as we felt it confused the piece and ruined the continuity, after that the piece immediately began to flow better. Sehb then got to work with the sound, which we decided to simplify to make it sound more professional. We also adjusted the sound levels, making it easier to listen too, also to build up certain parts where it reaches the crescendo.


By the end of the day we were so close to finishing it, but there were still one or two little problems that could be tweaked, mainly the sound.
Amber offered to come in the next day to come in for a couple of hours to completely finish it, unfortunately though I wasn’t able to make it, but she was able to completely finish the film, and we are all happy with the outcome.
I feel it looks far more professional now, due to the rearrangement of titles and the simplified sound.


Critique - good and bad
- Good use of music – builds up tension well
- Good misenscene, effective with genre
- Lighting poor at times – could of been improved
- Good POV shot
- It’s too much like a trailer
- Good misenscene and props
- Realistic narrative, although could of built up more suspense before drowning shots
- Last shot of hand is very effective
- Music at beginning should be louder
- Great shot of protagonist stroking picture with his thumb
- Confusing! Who are we following? Which character?

Improvements/final edit

Once our teacher had studied our piece, he gave us further improvements we could do. We are currently at a grade c/d and personally i don’t i want a better grade for the final piece.
The overall improvements he gave us where:


-Overall slow the piece down and simplify the piece.
-Limit the number of cuts in the second half of footage.
-Fix editing of sounds.
-Allow sound to over lap shots.
-Reposition the titles.


We have also decided to move all the titles to the beginning; we feel our piece would look more professional from this. We also have an idea of doing a voice over the titles. Our initial idea is to have the protagonist reading a poem, or the scrap book, we haven’t yet decided. However this is only an idea, we will experiment and see if it works.


On our deadline one of our members became ill, unfortunately she was the most confident using the software. Besides this, i took matters into my own hands and made it my responsibility to finish as much as possible.
I managed to get 1 minutes work done by myself, but we arranged to meet up during half term to fully complete it together.
When we did this we finally completed it and applied all the further improvements.