'Behind Closed Doors' Rough Cut

Editing Day 6

This was the very last day of editing, and Daniel loaded up the Mac and began editing the sound for scene 3. Deanna helped with the sound editing by giving useful feedback when Dan wasn't sure, and I helped move around a few video parts to allow the audio to match more effectively.

Once this was done, we began uploading the video to YouTube just before the lesson, which took over an hour to do. But, before the end of the lesson, Mr Hood got the other groups to watch the film and give feedback like we had done for them, and recorded it in the same way for us so we knew what changes to make.

At this time, Charlotte was completing the script for us to put on the blogs, as well as going back over the ident to check it was effective and achieved what we hoped - that it was explosive and showed our production company's values.

Sound editing nearly complete!

Editing Day 5

Editing Day 5 was a check of the foley and dialogue and the application of the soundtracks that we had gathered for the film. Dan was once again in control of the Mac, and the pressure was mostly on him to finish the sound, as he is designated sound editor and recorder, and knew where things were.

The soundtracks we used in the film were found by Deanna on two websites, FreeSFX.co.uk and Audio.lgfl.org.uk. They both featured a wide array of different soundtracks, but we were ooking for specific piano pieces of expressive and emotive music. My favourite soundtrack was Approaching the Hour, the one that kicks in with the transition to scene 2 when Rebecca is waiting at the table.

Dan managed to complete the sounds for scene 1 and most of scene 2, but ran out of time towards the end. He knew what he planned to do in the final day of editing, and was confident he would get it done in time.

Sound Editing

Editing Day 4

Today was a editing session primarily for sound effects and soundtracks. But, as well as this, we got Rebecca in to school to record voice over her parts, as they were too quiet at times. We put these straight into the timeline and edited them in with the rest of the sounds.

Dan had the computer alone for a while, in which time he went through all the films and made sure all the sounds were right and at the correct volume level. Me and Dan also had to record some simple foley sounds for the film to replace some old ones.

I believe the editing session went well and we had minimal issues, the largest being time, and the constant rendering lost us a lot of time. The software is easier to use than last year's software and we feel it was a faster process, especially now exporting sound from SoundTrack Pro wasn't needed anymore.

Adding in and editing sound and foley

Editing Day 3

This filing sessions was for scene 3. Scene 3 had  no visual effect filters over the footage, nd so the editing process was slightly easier.We had no effects on it as we wanted to make out that this one wasn't in the past and was real-time.

Editing in-progress

Deanna kept on giving ideas to improve the film as well as kept panicking about the time and lengths of each shot. She was very worried about the length of the film, although by the end it was only a few seconds out.

We also applied noise reduction and hum removal to the audio to eliminate the chances of this proving an issue. The problem was that every time someone spoke, there was a crackling static sound, which we needed to get rid if, so' it's required of me.

Editing Day 2

The editing process continued for another day, and now the film was really taking shape. Still no soundtrack or foley, but the visuals were there. We were editing some dialogue from scene 2, which was fun, as it was a new thing for most of my group, as we didn't use dialogue in our AS product 'Shadowed'.

We noticed the sounds on the camera were crackly, and the static in the background was really bad. So, me and Dan used the background noise reduction and hum removal tools to fix these issues.As I edited the footage together, Deanna added the visual effects in (Cold Steel set to 40% on scene 1, and Dreamy and Romantic on scene 2), speeding up the process.

Editing!

Whilst me, Deanna and Dan were editing the film, Charlotte continued working on the ident. She ran into some trouble, though, and couldn't find the correct sound effect she wanted, so she had to find an explosion sound and not bother with the fire crackle.

Editing Day 1

We used a piece of software called Final Cut Pro to edit our film. This is a very high standard piece of software, and was even used to edit feature films such as 300 (2007) and X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009).

We began by quickly editing together all the footage we had, roughly matching match-on-actions together just so we had feel of the flow of the film. We went over the match-on-actions later on the increase the quality of the cuts and to make it more precise.

I did most of the video editing, as I have the most experience with it and rather enjoy it. Below, there is a screenshot of us editing scene 1, where Alice is seen at the bottom of the stairs.

Editing Scene 1

Whilst I threw together as much footage as fast as I could, Deanna scoured the internet for soundtracks. She also was very keen to add visual effects like last year to make the film black and white, but I tried to change her mind. We came to the conclusion that effects would be used, but the colour would remain. To do this, Deanna started looking through the effects, and eventually came up with two. The first, called Dreamy, adds a fuzzy look to the film, and the other, called Romantic, adds a less-obvious change, but a soft-edged effect that makes the scene softer. Together, these effects looked effective, and after Dan changed the preset exposure and colour corrections, it was even better. These effects would only exist over scene 2, however, as it is a flashback.

Whilst we edited the film together, Charlotte began on the ident construction and the revamped script. The old ident idea was impossible to create, so Charlotte compromised and came up with something equally as fiery.