Editing session 6

I tweaked some of the smaller final audio problems. I removed the typewriter sound from the all credits throughout the video due to the fact that it messed with the audio levels of the dialogue so it would have been best if it had gone. As well as this, the heartbeat sound effect was too loud, so i had to try and find the perfect pitch for that as if it was too loud it would overpower the entire scene, but if it was too quiet the audience wouldn't understand the significance of it. I began to change the titles at the start of video in order to let the audience know what the purpose of the group being in the forest was as before that, there was no indication so i added an edit upon the text so it looked like it was being typed, i then added "Based on a true story" but there was still some more work to do on that. The music was too loud in the wrong parts so i had to lower the pitch as well as build up the music to the crescendo which was when Alice touched the blood so i made it fade out and then build back up until the final bit of Alice actually touching the blood, then it goes to silence

Editing session 5

We seemed to overall have a problem with the sound, due to the fact that it was silent for the entirety of the opening sequence. Me and Ewan sifted through different types of music that we thought would fit in with the idea of our film and i cut them down and started to put them into a place that would build suspense at the very start and when the group starts to come back. I bladed the clips and broke them up into the two parts and it spanned out for over a  minute in length. As well as this, as a group, we weren't fully done with the first credit scene with the text and i wasn't happy with the current font that was used so me and Ewan looked for a different one, where i pointed out the older looking typewrier styled writing, Ewan put it in and then had a look for a sound effect that could accompany this and i found the perfect one and me and Ewan both agreed on that. I inserted it into the video and it worked perfectly, first time with the editing to fit with the letters being put on screen and we attempted to do this for the rest of the credits. As well as this, i had the idea for a heart beat sound to be used when the blood is on screen, so Ewan and i put it in there just loud enough to hear over the soundtrack.

Editing session 4

I had the problem with the only medium shot of the audio, due to the fact that the audio was slightly muffled as well as the fact that the colour contrast was too great and lacked continuity, so i used the colour correction effect to change the contrast in colours and messed around with the contrasts in order to make it work and to an extent made it flow with good continuity. I also changed the audio of this shot, due to the fact that i used the enhance edit on it, in order to hear the dialogue clearer and remove some of the ambient sound which slowly was dominating the shot. As well as this, i added a very short shot of myself and Alice walking between two medium shots in order to add a variety of diverse shot types so that it looked more professional. As well as this, we still had a problem with the length of the clip, due to the fact that the entire thing was too long so i shortened some of my shots in order to save a few seconds. The problem with this was the fact that it shortened the audio which made it seem like characters were interrupting each other so i had to make it so that it was just long enough to make it flow as a conversation but short enough to cut the length of it down.

Editing session 2/3

In the second editing session i pieced together the dialogue and as a group we decided that the shots were too short and that we hadn't included the 90 degree rule, but we had come too far and there was no time for a reshoot so we had to go along with what we had. As well as this i attempted to put together the first few shots of my 30 seconds. I had to try and include a sound bridge by combining my own dialogue and had to spend a few minutes trying to get the continuity errors out of my shots. In the third editing session i removed any of the problems that i had with sound bridges due to the fact that the way that they had been pieced together, it left a large margin for error with their placement and length, leaving many shots overlapping and audio being cut out. In this session i removed the problems with these and removed any audio cutting. I also included a medium shot of the group, which was previously not in there, which caused problems due to the fact that the entirety of the dialogue was made up by close ups which had little continuity as well as showing little skill so i attempted to include that, the problems with that were that the audio was muffled and it didn't show continuity so i tried to change the audio to try and make it clearer. As well as this, i used a black screen into a 'fade to colour' well when Alfie put the bag down in order to get the black from the bag effectively, due to the fact that a previous problem that we had was that when he put the bag down it didn't go fully black on the screen, which we had hoped, so i put the black screen and 'fade to colour' to solve this problem. To try and make it within the two  minute boundary i had to shorten quite a lot of shots to try and make it go from 2:40 to 2;23.

Filming Journal 1

On the first day of shooting, we tried to get quite a few long shots and these didn't seem to work with our final editing so we had to cut them. We had a good idea  of the shots that we needed, yet we seemed to get through them too quickly and realised that it wouldn't take up the full 2 minutes.I directed the walking scenes and laid out for the actors a direct route for us to walk down by taking them through it on some practise runs of it in order to get them up to date as well as this on our first few attempts i told the actors and actresses the tone in which they should speak their lines. As well as this me and Ewan had a clash of ideas as he said that it would be beneficial for us to have a long shot. Me and Callum conversed about the flow of  the dialogue and how we could make the group seem in more cohesion  

Editing Session 1

In the first session we put on the first set of clips. Once we had done that we had the realization that the establishing shot took up 1/4 of our time so we had to change them to jump cuts in order to cut the timing down drastically for those shots. I edited the first few shots and attempted to piece the pan and dolly shot but it seemingly didn't flow too well. As a group, we realized that we didn't have enough shots for the first few scenes so we had to go back and re-film some of the crucial shots so that the opening sequence would flow. We decided to add an edit where Alfie put the bag over the camera and it cut to a black screen. Due to us having a lack of shots for the first scene, we moved on to this dialogue in order to get something done while having less shots than before. We need to edit the new shots down into the 2 minute time slot and do 30 seconds each. We used the splice tool to cut the first few shots down and worked to attempt to make it work but it proved to be a challenge for us. Me, Scott and Callum acted as advisors to Ewan's first few shots and we talked through what he did as a group and then he went a pieced the shots together.

Filming Journal 2

When we arrived, the crew (Myself, Callum, Ewan and Scott) had a short meeting where we discussed what angles would be better for the first few shots and i brought up the problem that . I thought that it would be a good idea for Ewan to do a medium follow shot from a side angle through the brush. I was stood with the other actors and actresses and told them what they had to do vocally, the movements that they had to do as well as the direction of actions. We had to do the first establishing shot multiple times for different angles and me and Callum told Alfie and Alice where to look and the tone of voice needed. As the shoot went on, i acted as a director to some of the more complex shots and me and Ewan talked about our different ideas for certain shots and in the end worked it out as to what we should do. After every shot, i would go back to Ewan/Scott with Callum and we would look at the shot and overall decide whether it needed re filming. I filmed over 20 extreme close ups of blood dripping to attempt to capture the necessary emotions from Alice as the blood poured down the side of the tree, due to the fact that it was a zoom transitioning into a short pan. I had to reshoot due to the fact that it was shaky in the first few and the audio was poor in a few others and i felt that we had to get it right for the ending. As well as this i filmed the close up of Callum and Alfie talking, this was filmed over the course of 10 shots which was narrowed down to 4 after Callum and i reviewed the clips afterwards. I also filmed the  As me and Callum were with the actors we worked especially with them to try and adapt and make the character specialised to them by adding their own feelings and tones into these characters. Me and Ewan decided that it would be beneficial for us to use a POV shot when we had the dialogue to give a false sense of security through power. When it came to setting up the mise en scene for this shot, we had to make it flow due to the continuity of the previous shot so we had to place the characters reasonably close together and we had to direct their movement in order to achieve this. At the start of the group walking in me and Callum told Alice and Alfie to start improvised speech in order to make it seem more realistic through their conversation even though it wasn't heard, it was their mouths moving as well as their body actions. We had to wait for the rain to stop and this caused it to rain heavily, we had to work around this in order to make it seem like it was shot over the course of one day.