Final Piece

                                                                             Spirit

Final day of editing

Was a great final day of editing. I never realized the amount of work we still needed to do. In the end we basically pulled apart all the footage we had, and spent hours on tweaking each piece frame by frame.
We originally had our group name 'Paradox' with a smoke effect. We needed to change this as this had no place in the film. We ended up choosing a kanji symbol 'spirit'. This was designed to give a more foreign look and a little more meaning behind our film without giving the story away.
This is the symbol for 'Spirit'.

We then moved to editing the flashbacks. These needed to be timed and also have a added feature of a filter that was different from the other filter that was on the rest of the film.

 

After this we discussed sound as we had moved along from the original piece we were going to use.

Pastel found a great song from the soundtrack of Naruto Shippuuden Soundtrack - Ochihabune. As soon as we had played the music with the film we knew it was perfect and exactly what we were after.

 

 

By the time we finished on that saturday night it was already 10.30p.m. But it was so worth the extra time of editing. We accomplished what we had set out to do for this project.

End is near

We are now nearing the end of this project. There are still a few issues we need to sort, Music, title, credits, and minor editing still needs to be done, touch ups etc...

I once again believe our group has taken a giant leap in showing how well we can work within a team and get things organized and done. Each member has put in the effort needed and if only there was a little more time we could have tweaked the film to something greater then the constraints of the brief.

Preview of our final film, still editing needed.

More editing.

Now that we had all the footage, we needed to once again sort through it all and cut out extra pieces that were either unusable, of were just too lengthy and dragged the film out too long.
To do this we split the footage up and went through the particular scenes we needed. I needed everyone to write the footage file number and the time of the footage so I could then easily find that footage and place it within Finalcut.

We now have a full 'rough version' of our final film. We are however undecided on music, or sound we will use.
We also discussed our thoughts on a name for our film, as this was proving difficult, we came up with an idea to use a symbol instead.
These were some name ideas

Reshoot

As mentioned earlier we needed another days re-shoot. We needed to do this re-shoot as soon as possible, and took a real chance with the weather as it wasn't that great. We were fortunate the weather cleared up for us. We set up things a couple of days earlier asking Kate if props can be brought back for the day, and if Alyse could be prepared for make-up duty. Aly had to make sure she wore the same clothes as the first shoot, and Logan and I had to source two cameras again. Pastel had the most important job of picking up Charly and making sure she was ready for the day.
The morning of the shoot we came to class prepared, at this time the weather was not good, so we decided to go away for an hour and work on our blogs and any extra editing from the first shoot. Once the hour had passed the weather had cleared and we made moves to go as soon as possible. When we arrived the car park was full and we realized that the garden festival was happening that same day and there were many people around, we did not let this detour us and we carried on with set up.
Before the re-shoot we had made a scene list on the scenes we needed. This was done so we could move quickly through the day.

We knew we had to focus on our graveyard scene, this was our last and the most important scene, we also had no footage from the first shoot of this scene. We needed to shoot this first wanting to do it before Charly become tired or restless. Doing this worked out well and we got some great shots.

We continued shooting throughout the day and I believe we now have enough footage for us to finish what we want to accomplish.