Production log 8

In week 8, me and Chanel began to edit the pieces of film that we done it week 7. The draft was due this week so all the editing of the shots we done needed to be pretty much done.  Our draft didn't really make sense, but we knew this would happen because in our film there was cuts between two different locations, Adriana's house and the laundry factory. We haven't yet filmed the shots that are to be taken in the laundry factory which made our draft look very jumpy and confusing. Some key issues we had when editing this week, was which parts were we going to cut out and which we was going to keep, for example when Adriana was walking down the stairs to leave, we had a shot of her putting her shoes on to make the continuity flow. However we decided that this shot was not necessary and used up too much time in the film which we needed, so we cut it out and the continuity still looked good. 

Once the other groups watched our drafts, we got feedback from them so we could see what they liked about it and what we needed to change and improve. People said that we had some shots we eye contact in the camera. To solve this problem we had to decide which other shots we were going to replace the ones with eye contact in, as we filmed a lot of the scenes more then once. We had to pick some shots that wasn't as good in terms of framing, but there was no eye contact to the camera so it had to be replaced. With some other shots we could just cut it a bit shorter to remove the eye contact part and it still run smoothly. Other feedback we had was that the continuity didn't flow very well in some shots, like a pause before the action started. To solve this problem we only had to tighten up the editing to get rid of the pauses, but this was only a draft and the final version will run much smoother.

Also, when listening to the sound that was in the shots, you can hear each cut, as the sound slightly changes in each shot. But because this was only a draft we hadn't yet film all of the wild tracks of the sound to make it run smoothly, we had only done some. In the final piece we will make it all sound the same so you cant hear any obvious cuts, and we will also add music.

In this shot you can see the purple bar carrying on over 3 shots. That was a wild track sound so the sound between each cut blended in and made the sound run smooth.