P5

Final Edit

Logging Rushes

Reviewing the Video

Review of footage - I have mixed feelings about our short film, on one side some shots and aspects were nice looking and fun to make, but other times it gets to the worse of the worse. I enjoyed working with my group though, we had a fun, light and bouncy atmosphere whenever we were filming. However, there still came issues, I think at times we were overlay having fun to the point where we weren't getting much done at times as well as people being unsure of how to bring this script to camera with conflicting ideas sometimes. I'm mostly happy with the footage during the scene where our characters agree on a rematch, it was short, well shot and I think one of the only times we correctly used the 180 rule. The footage I'm least happy with is when we were to record these basketball games, no one really had an idea on how to tackle it, so it just ended up being really unchoreographed shots which were just done with one take and nothing special with the camera movements. I would definitely re shoot those however, I'm not too sure we still understand on how to film a basketball game.

Initial Edit Structure - I followed the structure of the script when creating my edit, there are definitely scenes which could be in a different order and such, but I thought the way the script presented itself and its structure was the best to follow. The film goes back and forth from present day to a week earlier and then even further during the week earlier sequence, we put it at simple to make it obvious enough to the viewer that were in a earlier time set by making those scenes black and white. When the basketball games are being edited its a mix match of fast cuts of the ball going into the hoop, the players dribbling, blocking one another, all the typical things to expect from a basketball game except made faster, to keep the action following and intensity at high.  

Applying Effects and Transitions

EDL

Linking Audio to Visual

When filming our heavy dialogue scenes we wanted to not only have nice looking shots but also good audio quality as well. However, since our film was primarily outside and during our shooting days it was always really windy, and the mic would only pick up on the wind.

So what we had to do was create separate dialogue audio files during the times we were filming outside. What we did was get a microphone and go into a quiet room and have the actors dub over the original dialogue, meaning they had to watch their clips numerous times before getting the same pronunciations and lip sync as the original audio and footage.

Afterwards during the editing phase we would place the footage clips into premiere and then later add the audio after making the footage all nice, sometimes the dubbed audio and footage wouldn't always match up perfectly so we would have to make timing and sound edits to fix those situations.