Post-production

From the audience feedback for our opening two minutes I specifically learnt that our group should have developed further with the shot of the pink bag being on the floor, as we created it to be quite a large aspect but did not act upon this. However, it was as noted that we created the build-up successfully by cutting between two shots of the victims and protagonist’s feet allowing the audience to feel tension. For our editing the review was overall that it was really good, apart from one jump cut. This is effective to know as if we made this mistake in our trailer it could have allowed it to look less professional therefore we took extra time. It was also said that it would be much more effective if the music was louder on certain bits where the climax has reached, which we all agreed with. Therefore after this I used the editing tool clipping and we trimmed between the shots where the jump cut had occurred; this allowed it to then become seamless and look professional. As well as this we looked in further detail of the music and actually found out how to make certain areas of the clip louder by using the editing tool volume. This was successful as it did make our opening two minutes feel much tenser. The post production process enhanced the whole production as like I said it made it look seamless, allowed us to pick up on little areas that we couldn’t notice because we have watched it over and over again but somebody who has never seen It can spot these aspects, allowing it to be the best it can and provide the highest quality for the audience.

I have developed these skills at A2 quite simply. For example, this involved being aware of the time. For example, in AS we assumed that it would only take one day of filming. However, this was not the case as when we looked over it we found out that we had to re film certain bits due to the light affecting to shots, etc. This year we gave ourselves 4 days to film over, allowing us to make as many changes as we wanted. This is effective as the more footage we had the better as we could also get rid of the bad shots but was good to have the options for the good shots and which ones we wanted to incorporate. This also allowed us more time to play around with sound, makings sure that it created the right emotion at the correct time, which is such an important aspect of a trailer. This was similar to the shots where we made sure the cuts were seamless. We simply did this by being more careful and thorough.