Peer Review And Comments

After presenting my film and blog to the class I was informed that I will need to revise certain aspects of my film. There were parts within the film where the sound/dialogue was muffled and weren't audible enough. To fix this I will just have to re-shoot a few of the sections in the film. Another aspect I could change to better the film, is to shoot from different angles. This will also help with help with the sound. Instead of shooting the majority of the film from the passenger seats view, I could change the angle of the camera and have shot-reverse shots from the driving side of the car, which will show the scene more clearly and help make the sound/dialogue more audible. A classmate of mine also recommended adding sound effects to make parts of the scene more believable, for instance when Jess loses control of the wheel and swerves a car horn and traffic sounds could be added. Another thing to change is to make it appear that the car is moving, so I will have to move the car slightly or to different locations every once in a while during the scene to make it appear like the car is actually being driven.

Mid-Year Draft of Movie

Editing Continuation

During editing, I added a fade in from the beginning title and production company name to the beginning of the scene. On the last section of the scene I made the pictur move slower so that it gives the actors reactions more emphasis, and then I added a fade out to black to signify the end of that scene. I also had to add the sound effect of a car horn going off (honking) and sound in the beginning during the title. At first I had a difficulty adding all the names and music credits to the beginning scene without running over two minutes. To fix this however I just made the credits go through the opening scene on the bottom left corner of the screen. This way the credits are seen, but do not cause the opening scene to run over the time needed (two minutes).

Editing

I have begun the editing process for my film. I have needed to cut down a few scenes due to insidficient lighting or unwanted sound in the background. I need to figure out how to make the film run smoothly after editing certain parts of it, because otherwise the cuts are not "clean".