The Editing Phase

We've finally finished our filming on location and now commences our editing phase! 

I'm just going to give an overview of what our media group used for editing software, how it was used and how effective it was to create our movie cut. 

Video Editing in progress

For Editing our shots into an order resembling a movie, we used the software "Final Cut". This is where we created our cuts, match on action and manipulated the clips. We also had access to inserting transitions, filters and motion paths. 
In the picture bellow you can see the classic set up of Final Cut, On the far left pane is where all the unedited clips from the camera is imported to. From there you click on the clip and it appears in the middle screen (The currently black one) In this screen you edit your clip how you want it and finally move it on to the last screen by dragging and dropping it, it will then appear on the timeline (below the 3 panels) 
This is a complex piece of software to use, but it gives the best results for editing and with a little trial and error and practice, we picked up how to use the software. Unfortunately you can't edit sound in this software,  sound will appear with the clips but if you want to manipulate the sound or create a soundtrack, Soundtrack Pro is the software we use. 

Soundtrack Pro

The advantages of using Soundtrack Pro is that it allows you to edit and manipulate several different sound channels at once so that you can (depending on what sound/effect you are after) Alter the volume, change the pitch or cross fade different sounds together to make one continuous sound that flows from several different sound files. Another advantage of Soundtrack Pro is that it contains, within the software a sound library of thousands tracks of pieces of music and sound effects which we can then use in conjunction with the sound recorded with the Foley kit and camera. 

The flow that you can see in the screen shot is our group playing back the clip with our groups Foley sounds. Here we are checking that the sound matches the video footage we have imported in the software .

Our Ident

  At the same time we were working on editing our movie we started construction of our ident 'Lime light Productions' the software we're using is called 'Motion' it's new to us so it took some time to get a handle of it, but we're finally making headway.

Day 3 - FINAL Day Of Filming On Location

Thursday 13th February 2014
Today was our final day of filming and my birthday, yay! Today we had to film our protagonist (the Hacker) and their scenes. This was our busiest and longest shooting day out of the three I have to say, We used a lot of different filming equipment to achieve the various shots to the highest standards we possibly could, this meant capturing 2 or more of one shot just so when we took the footage back to edit we had a choice of shots to put in for particular parts. 

A problem we faced throughout filming today was moving ourselves and our actor AND all the filming equipment from location to location. This was overcome by several car journeys between each of the locations transporting actors, crew and equipment between the journeys. There was a lot of back and forths going on and we realise we would have struggled greatly if we did not have a car on hand. 

Note on Risk Assessment!: We did not foresee that a member of our own team (me) could hurt themselves on the equipment that they have used many times before! This was obviously a low risk but a risk non of the less, if it were on the risk assessment they may have been more careful, this just highlights WHY risk assessments are important procedure, not just for actors but for the crew members aswell.

Day 2 - Filming on Location

Monday 10th February 2014 - 
Today is day two of filming on location, we filmed the establishing shot and our 'Mystery Man' scene. 
We scheduled an hour in which to shoot this which was a bit ambitious of us considering it took a while to construct the crane for the camera, we managed to just about film in our allocated time, we would have had more time to go at a leisurely pace if it wasn't for the fact that we had to wait for the sun to stop shining on the windows of the house and reflect us and the camera crane. This dwindled our time, but by being patient we over came the problem and got a perfect crane shot, with nice affective ambient sound.

Our filming of the Mystery Man was straight forward filming after todays complications, we filmed our actor against a black background as his where about's were meant to me anonymous as well keeping up the illusion. This went well with the right amount of light showing up on the actors face making the shot we envisioned in the planning phase become perfect in the shooting phase. 

Day 1 - Filming on Location

Saturday 8th February 2014

Today we did our first day of filming for our movie. We shot our Antagonist in today's filming, The actor (Josh) turned up in the right costume at our request he luckily had a suit at hand to wear and he took his role seriously and allowed us to film multiple shots with little time wasting. He was compliant to what we needed from him and was easy to manipulate to around the scene to get our perfect shot. 

Here's a snap shot of our filming with the antagonist today

 The wind was particularly strong today and was moving our tripod when not 

supervised, this was the only problem we encountered when filming outside  
today and We 

overcame this problem by holding the tripod in place whilst filming so that the camera was able to get a steady shot and wasn't rolling away because of the wind.

Actors Release forms

We had to get our actors to sign a form to basically allow us to use their image in our movie and show it, if this wasn't signed we could potentially be sued for showing something of them that they didn't allow us to show.

Shooting Schedule

This is our Shooting Schedule. It contains the information for each shot we do in our film so that we know who is in the shot, when we are filming the shot, what we need to be in the shot and where we are filming the shot.

Shooting Schedule for Hacked

Risk Assesment

This is the risk assessment for our film Hacked, its not a very high risk of a film and the risks that we do have are all easily sorted and the likelihood of them happening are all low.

Take a quick look at our draw up: