Post 22: Post-Production Report

After we had finished filming our next step was to capture all of our footage onto the editing suite and start creating a rough cut of our film. The editing software that we used was Adobe Premiere Pro as that’s the only one available at school. Although we worked as a team to do the editing Katie-Mai took control and was the main person in charge of getting the editing done.

By creating a rough cut we were able to get a first look at what our film would end up like. To do this we had to go through all the shots and footage we had and chose which shots worked best and which angles gave the best view of the action.

 

Once we had a rough cut we then went back over the footage and cut out and errors and deleted a few shots that didn’t work or didn’t look right. We tried to make sure there were no continuity errors but as you can see from the pictures below some continuity errors were impossible to fix so late in the production of our film.

 

After we were sure we had created the desired footage we went through and checked the sound levels to make sure the footage ran smoothly. Once we were satisfied with what we had we added music and the voice over to help create the atmosphere and to give our film a more professional finish, this was mainly over the montages and in the background of the office scene.

Once this was complete we focused on the transition of the shots and proceeded to add in fades where we thought would help the pace of the film , this can be seen in the photo below. Once we had added effects and backing tracks our short film was complete, my group and I are happy with the outcome, however, I wish we had spotted certain continuity errors whilst we were originally filming and had the chance to fix the error - Alan and Sophie in the living room.