Film Process

Our Experience...

We had a few problems with the filming process because we didn't have a secure location to shoot our footage, which meant that we lost a lot of time trying to find an appropriate location that looked similar to a child's bedroom. This resulted in us spending too much time on filming and not enough time on editing and sound.
Initially we found it hard to concentrate when doing the acting but quickly we over came the humorous side of it and worked well together as a group. Another problem we came across was after putting the footage on the computer, the sound was out of sync with the moving image. We managed to over come this issue quickly by using final cut.
When using final cut we found it very simple to cut our footage the way we intended. We tried to make the continuity of our footage better than it was in our preliminary task, as this was a problem we had previously noticed that we needed to improve on.
After editing our footage we then composed our music on garage band. This we found had many options and it took us a while to decide what music would be appropriate for our footage and for our target audience. We decided to have music at the beginning and end of our piece as this will grab viewers attention at the beginning and create more tension towards the end. By keeping the continuity within the music we used the fading tool so when the music stopped and started it wouldn't sound so harsh. We found that the credits at the beginning were subtle to keep the young audiences attention and the title at the end big, fast and bright. This is a good way of appealing to the young audience and maintaining their attention.