Away Days - Final Cut

This is the final cut of our 2 minute thriller, in this Harry S and I moved the title to the begining to stop it looking like a trailer and added a soundtrack, which proved to be surpsingly difficult. We also changed the brightness in the shots involving the kitchen to around -68% to make it look more like a thriller.

In all I'm not that impressed with the product but it's much better than it was to start with. Harry S was a great help and Harry E gave us somewhere to film, without that this would never have come to be in my opninion.

Enjoy the clip! (below)

Editing our clip

Today (12th December) I took the encoded clips from Wednesday and put them into Premier Pro, once imported I named them all then set to work on cutting them down to relevant size so only the 'good stuff' made it into the cut. It took me around 30-40 minutes to get everything in. After my little session the clip came to be 1:37 minutes so we need around 20 more seconds but we have the material, my only issue with it is that it's not the best.

Harry Smith helped me out with the editing to make sure all the audio was ok because he was the nearest person with headphones, he was a good help and added a couple of fades between shots where we had to do a double shot because I forgot something. The transitions improve the overall quality of the clip so far for which I am grateful.

All that needs to be done now is add the clips that were filmed outside and the voiceover tracks and we have a good product that can be tweaked.

Filming the 2 minute intro

On Thursday 4th December, Harry Smith, Harry Edwards, Joe Clough and I started filming our 2 minute intro. We started by filming the end where two groups meet up outside the 'stadium' for a brawl. We used the lower site entrance on school campus for this at about 4:50pm after I had finished my extra chemistry. Before I arrived Jake, one of the actors, had kindly filmed some scenes for our opening credits so that when I arrived we were ready to start filming. As I was absent from Wednesday's lesson I was unsure as to what the rest of the group had planned for this session but as it turned out nothing got done in the lesson I missed so we were all going in blind with no script or storyboard which I was not impressed with.

On set we only had two extras meaning the initial and intended size of our cast was drastically reduced to just 6 people which shook mine and Joe's confidence in this task.

Friday 5th - On the Friday during our morning media periods, our group went over to Harry Edward's house to film the rest of our intro, Ben Hall came along to assist with the acting which was beneficial. In this 90 minute session we managed to get some very good material. As the cinematographer I was doing my best to try and put into practice what Joe and Harry.E had in their minds, I'd like to think I did quite well. We used a pan transition about 3 or four times between Joe's character and Harry.S and Ben's characters, the pan starts and ends with a wall/door frame to create a flow (continuity) between the scenes, the desired effect was a natural wipe transition.