Reflective Post

This post is going to reflect on each day of editing and filming, saying what happened for the production on that day, whether it went well or badly, and why.

Filming :

Day 1:

Day One was the first day of filming, and during this day, we recorded a 5 scenes, up to one of the racers hitting the wall. We didn't do all of the scenes, and one of these scenes was left out, to be done at a later date. 

Overall, we filmed all the scenes that we wanted to film that day, apart from one, which meant that we were slightly behind on the filming, but due to the scene left out being a short scene, it didn't affect the production too much. The day went well, with all the actors being devoted to getting the filming done, and though there was some distractions for the first scene, it was soon ironed out, and the filming was completed for the day.

Day 2 : 

On day two, we recorded up the teacher looking strangely at the two racers going through the college, which was about where we wanted to be for that day of recording. 

The day was less successful than the first one, because the area that we were filming in for this day was a heavily congested area with a lot of students in, making it hard for us to be able to record. The actors were also easily distracted during this day, making the production a little slower than it needed to be. 

Day 3 :

On day three, we finished all the recording that we needed to do for the DepicT short, including the extra shot that we had missed out of the first day. This day had more problems than the second day, just because we were recording in the reception, where students and people constantly come and go, and though it was a quiet day, there was still a lot of students going past.

Because of this, it took as much longer than it should have to get all the filming in that area that we needed done. None of the actors were distracted, but the amount of times we had to stop for people to get past slowed the production down greatly, causing us to start rushing the few last scenes. 

Editing :

Day 1 :

For the first day of editing, we managed to finish getting all the video clips on the timeline in Premiere Pro, making sure that we had all the correct clips, and that it was all in the correct order, as one scenes for the film was shot on a different day, so it had to be located and placed correctly.

Due to us running out of time on Day 2, some of our good video clips were placed in the "Excess Footage" folder, a folder dedicated to footage that wasn't planned for use, but might come in handy during the post-editing.

Day 2 : 

In the second day of editing, One of us was working on gathering royalty-free music for the film, as well as some sound effects to add to our production. While this was happening, the other person worked on finalising the clips on the timeline in the correct order, and then cutting down the music, due to the choice of music being 11 minutes long. This meant that we had to cut it down to get the correct part of the song that we wanted. 

Day 3 : 

Day 3 is when we finished the editing up, making sure that all of the sound effects were in the right place, and making sure that the music wasn't too loud compared to the sound effects. we also made sure that we had the opening credits allowing those watching to be able to know who was in the short film, and who was on the crew.

We also had to sort out some of the sound effects, because one of the audio clips had been changed to a different one, but luckily we found it before it was finally exported, as it would've ruined the whole film.

Problems :

One problem that we had was that one of our people that was in our group left half way during our production, so we had to change our plans in order to continue with the production. Another problem that we had was that we had to change our actual plans for the production. Because we planned to use office chairs in the original production , but due to the risk of a hazard being too high with what we planned to use them for, we had to change our plans.