So, after watching our thriller opening as well as our prelim, going through it to find our weaknesses/problems that would make our work better and more complete.
I decided to choose recording and editing sound with images appropriately.
One thing that I realised through both our thriller opening as well as our prelim, was predominantly our shooting material. Even though we got some terrific shots in both our pool and airport scene(and in the hub), I believe that just a little extra time and work in either of these locations would have bumped our film up a mark or 2, but how you ask ??
Well it was clear from the start that the footage we got from our second trip to Gatwick wasn't up to scratch. Partly due to lack of time and experience we only shot certain scenes and clips once or twice which looking back on didn't help when coming to edit together with match on actions. As well as this, their was a few great shots that we had, but were to long and tedious to have as one clip so we had to cut it shorter than we would've like.
Now then, what could we have done to improve.
First things quite obvious looking back at it, we were even told it over and over before shooting, but once your their you don't start to think of shooting a clip 3,4 or even 5 times. Come our short film, I will make sure every scene and clip is short at least 4 times to allow for maneuverability in editing to get the timing just right. This gives the final edit to be just right with no mistakes.
Another way in which we can enhance the quality in our film shooting, is the angles we take the shot from, e.g. (insert clip of dad walking across the hanger).
In this scene we have a nice wide detailed setting, which we didn't use to our utmost capability. Although time was problem again, if we could have set up the camera in 3 or 4 locations and shot it 8-10 times, it would have made for a much more thrilling scene instead of a chopped up dry scene.
There is also one final bit I would add to this list of improvement. Our use of foleys was basically non existent, although this time we got lucky and most of our camera sound was useful and that we had music or a voice-over for the whole opening meant it wasn't to hard to cover anything that wasn't perfect in the sound department. Taking our time to research and experiment with sounds will be necessary in or short film as sounds have to be much clearer as well as having speech within our film. By doing this we can cut the sound entirely and use foleys and separate voice recordings to make the film crisp and clear. Adios.
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