This week was probably the most hectic out of all the production weeks due to the deadline approaching and lots of things going on. We started off in the week filming our last few scenes in the opening sequence and finished that early in the week. Once we had finished, we thought that we had finished the filming process and were going to finish editing. But we received feedback from the teachers saying that we could further improve our work by adding different range of shots and include various camera angles and making the whole opening sequence more interesting as a whole.
So we decided to go and re-film the main scenes of our opening sequence which was around one minute thirty of it. We added a different range of camera angles and included much more close ups to show emotion and facial expressions of the character. We also quickened the pace of the opening sequence to make it more interesting and attention grabbing to the viewers. Once we had finished, we looked back at the footage we recorded on the camera we saw that it was much much better then all the footage we had recorded before.
When we got back onto the mac we tried to import all the new footage we had recorded, but every time we tried it kept on coming up with an error. After around an hour of trying to import the footage we realized that the SD card was corrupt. This meant all the footage we had re-filmed was corrupt and there was no way possible of importing and editing the footage to the Mac. As the deadline day was fast approaching, the only options were to re film again or make do with what footage we had.
We decided to quickly re film the scenes that were lost due to the SD card being corrupt, but we also had to bear in mind that we had to do this very quickly as we also had to edit and import the sound and graphics. We re filmed the scenes which took around an hour and then quickly imported the footage on the mac successfully. We also managed to cut and edit half of the footage, but had to stop there as school was closing.
The next day we continued to edit and put all the footage together. While two people in the group was editing the footage, the third person was finding appropriate music to use in our opening sequence. We narrowed down the music choice to four, and then by elimination process we chose the music that would fit our mood and theme of the narrative and also appealed to British Social Realism. Once we had finished editing all the footage and imported the music, we started to import the credits. Once we imported the credits we realized we could not increase the duration of the credits, which again stopped us from completing the opening sequence. After a while we realized the problem and fixed it so the credits could be tampered with so the duration could be changed. Once this was done we checked through everything and had one final check from the teachers and finally finished and uploaded the final product to YouTube.
In the last lesson of the week, we all watched as a class over our peers opening sequence and provided feedback on it. We included things that we liked, such as technical strengths and narrative strengths and also weaknesses of the work. We also wrote how each opening sequence could be improved. This helped us a lot as we found out what worked well in our opening sequence not just from our point of view but from others, meaning we could improve in the future.
