Final Cut

This is the final cut of our thriller Those Who Kill. It is kick ass.
Hope you Enjoy

Quick inputs

On our last two days of editing we took some pictures ofme (brendan), as Sammie the Lynch Jr. in a police line up.
We did this as an establishment of some sort of background to the character, showing that my character is a criminal, as it was not clear before.
Here are the Photos.

We added the middle finger shot to show personality into the character. To be able to add this into our footage we have required a photo shutter sound and have thought to blended it in very well with the clips.

On the note of sound, we have also managed to re-record cleves speech and combine it with a fire crackle so that it keeps well in with the established surroundings. Also we have managed to find a suitable gunshot so that you know what has happened and no sketchy disbelief has occured.

EEEP LAST WEEK OF EDITING!!

OKAY. this is our last week of editing as we have to hand in our final cut on the 19th!! However, we are going to keep calm, very calm and pull through.

We all know what we have to do; for example. Cleve and Pete have to record the voice overs so that cleve's most important speech is done precisely and consistantly and sounding 100% natural and from the heart. We also need to record a backing track, which fits in with Cleve's acoustic guitar.

The editing has caused some worry amongst some group members especially after the class evaluations, however, i am sure that we will edit the clips perfectly so that each piece of continuity is unnoticable, with no questioning of how, well the hows will still be asked but thats to keep the audience interested in the film.

Class feedback

From the task in class. Each group would go around and give feedback on what they felt was good and what could be improved in each video.
The comment most commonly said which was good was the good angles. And also a few groups liked the editing,
This is the full list of comments:

• everything...
• good length
• good angles
• story line
• "trippy"
• good angles
• good editing
• Cleve's acting
• Good camra angles
• editing is fast and cuts nice.

What was suggested that could be improved was mostly about the sound issues and light issues in which some bits are very hard to hear over the fire and at points when the fire was getting going it has caused a clip or two to be quite dark. However we have already blogged about how we plan to change these and we have already realised these problems. The other notable critisim was that the cuts in between at the end were too fast. This is due to the clips we have not being that good. We could of done with a lot more shots when doing the scene and so it currently looks quite strange how quickly it goes and almost too strange for example how they get from place to place.There also seems to be bits of what we should of filmed missing and so bits of the fight are not there. We plan to solve this problem with heavy editing as we are not allowed to re-film. So time will tell if it will work out or not.
By Jonny.

Our Rough Cut of ~ 'Those Who Kill' a 3+Emo production

For our rough cut we have had to quickly piece together the two scenes, this is not how we are going to have it in our actual final.

For our final we will infuse the two scenes so that they over lap, mainly over cleves speech scene. By doing so it gives us prime opportunities to add in little credit snips, also we have discovered that some of our clips are encountering some major continuity so where that happens we shall also have some credits.

We have been concupting ways to have cleves preparation scene and we thought it was best having it during cleves walk clip, we had it then as it shows that cleve is well prepared and that he is the clear dominant within the face off; it also makes it seem as if i have no weapon and going to meet cleve blind heartedly.

As said in a previous post we shall need to do a voice over, this is prime as we need cleves speech to be smooth, consistant and sounding natural; having him do it again we can alter the speech giving cleve's character breathers, so we can have credits and also emphasis on the face off scene, and also gives chances for that scene to have special effect noises such as gun shots, punch sounds and of course the splash.

Sound Issues

Sound Issues
Once we put the footage we recorded over the weekend onto the computer and played back we realised we had a few issues with the sound.
The problems
1)The fire is making up much of the noise captured by the camera and is quite a bit louder than Pete when he is talking
2)Due to it raining for some parts to protect the camera and make sure no water gets on the lense we put a umbrella up above it. But the consequence is that for the scenes in which we record while its raining which is only a few scenes there is the sound of rain hitting the umbrella which is quite noticeable specially compared to the other scenes after it which does not have the same noise.
3)The guitar playing is good however at new scenes it completely changes for example it will cut during the middle of one bit and then in the next clip it will be a completely different tune. Looking back at it we should of got Cleve to only play one song throughout to prevent this issue.
To solve these issues
1)We have decided to do a complete voice over for a majority of the clips and hopefully get them lip synced well. We can then turn down the volume of the original clip so the sound of the fire will be a lot lower and the have the voice over quite loud. This should get us what we wanted which is a fire in the background but not being too loud.
2)Due to us voicing over again we can turn the original clips volume down and also with music in the background which we will put over the clip the noise should be unnoticeable.
3)We will create a song on garage band using a acoustic guitar and then import this onto the film. It will not be obvious we done this as the footage is Cleve genuinely playing the guitar so it looks realistic and we doubt it will seem that obvious what we have done.
This is how we plan to solve the sound issues that have occured during our footage editing.
By Jonny

Planned for lesson

For today's lesson we plan to sort the clips out by moving them close together and making sure all the bits unnecessary have been deleted. We also planned to do voice overs due to the sound not being good when we originally recorded the footage.
However only one of the people we will be using in the voice over is here and so we will make do with only recording one of them saying their lines.
Jonny.

TODAY 2/3/2010

today we have planned to upload the whole of our footage and piece it together and do some quick editing.

We have achieved our aims of uploading our footage and we have started to cut out our out takes and such like.
Next lesson we will continue editing and will be blogging too.

Trying not to kill both Pete and Brendan

Due to a change in the location we decided to use a bonfire as the source of our lighting for the lodge scene. Because the lighting was a little weak we decided to place an old kitchen wood top on the fire, which made it almost kill Pete. Thankfully on Pete's part it started to rain and everything turned out fine, though we could have done with more close ups of Pete.

Secondly was Brendan fall of the Marina bridge into water that was about -5degrees centigrade. We took all the right precautions, such as equipping Brendan with a full body wet suit, (that i just happen to have lying around), fresh clothes, hot cup of tea and some soup. Safety first!