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Reviews of our film : FINDERS KEEPERS

This is some of our audience reviews on our film. We have received mainly positive reviews especially the fact that there's moral (message at the end of the film about finders keepers). Few of audience suggested if we were meant to film again in future there should be voice-over but when we explained why we didn't want voice-over , our audience understood and commented that usually in comedy film there's always voice-over but for film it's actually unique and interesting as we tried to portray comedy and drama genre with facial expressions.
Overall a positive start to our filming :)

Our final film :FINDERS KEEPERS

Evaluation of my editing skills

Overall I think I did quite well on my editing part. However even though I did most of the editing I have learnt different editing skills from Sammah such as adding certain effects ( creating blurry images, fading etc). The first day for my editing was an nervous day for me because I had never edited and I was instructed to start editing our first few scenes in the film.  I felt I needed more help and so I decided to ask one of the mentor to help and teach me some of the techniques. As obvious I didn't learn it in the first day but it took me one week to be confident enough to edit.

My friend Genevia has helped me a lot in becoming expert with editing in filming. Whenever she used to go editing I used to observe and wrote down notes on to which technique, effects or ways she would use for her film. My partner sammah also helped me in giving me ideas about the use of effects we could use in our film and hence I allowed Sammah to do the effect part for editing. My journey throughout my editing has been excellent as I have learnt different skills and gained knowledge about editing more than I needed to know. One of my skills that has improved within my editing journey is my time management skills this is because we had one day to edit and I had only 6 hours to finish my editing as well as adding soundtracks . I divided my free time and how much I should spend on each section . For instance for the park location I finished the editing within 1 hour as for the other locations such as Oxford street it took me 30 minute. And for most of the scenes me and sammah edited together but adding few soundtrack sammah did this part and then when I came I edited by how long and how should the music play within certain scenes. 

In order to know more about the effects I could use for my filming during my break time I had , I used it effectively to learn more about editing by myself. Such as I played around with adjusting the lighting and colour correction, by doing this I could have added different shade tints to the film. But then we wanted to keep our film simple and elegant without adding too many effects even though its a comedy genre film. when It came to editing soundtracks before I had to downloaded it, the first few sites I used to convert it to MP3 didn't work so I had to search for another. Downloading into MP3 was bit of risky for me as some down-loaders website had virus and I it took me an hour to search fora safe website to download. 

When I’d downloaded it I listed them in orders so I can show it to my partner sammah and get her agreement. so it was long process  dragging & editing, to the audio bar and then re-rendered it. . I found this process for a few moments quite stressful as I had to keep renaming scenes ,adding new scenes and changing them again with the old scenes etc. However I am happy with the final outcome. As a result I felt  I've learnt to time scale my work better and now have skills and experience in film final pro . Sometime I felt I should make it more professional standard but then our film timing was short and I realised If I had more time ton shoot I would shoot some few scenes to polish the editing further. 

As I'm experienced with editing for films(I'm comfortable with the different types of editing tools) I could help people who need advices or help them editing.So overall I believe I did well for my editing part which gave our film a good impression and this is evidenced by our audience as there will be reviews of audiences. 

Editing part 10 adding soundtrack

Due to the timing I had left to edit  the whole film I forgot take pictures of me editing the soundtrack and which soundtrack I have used. on the other hand these are some of the soundtrack I have used. the night before editing I searched over quite a lot of soundtrack to see which one matches our film. Out of all the soundtrack I have used silent hill , pop instrumental beat sad and comedy music. There are other which I have used but I have lost the pictures of it.

This is my evidence for searching variety of soundtrack. It took me 3 hours to chose the ones I need and it was actually difficult because all the soundtrack were great but it wasn't easy to identify soundtrack that goes along the whole scenes. I didn't want to add different types of soundtrack at each different scene so I decided to download 4 piece of soundtrack which are listed above. 

Editing part 9: Adding effects

This is the scene of precious going to shopping : This scene was too long so we speeded up the scene timing up to 150%.This is because even though we tried to shoot through different types of camera angles and use of different shots, it would create a bit of different effect to the film rather than cutting the scene to make it shorter and showing her walk slowly which wouldn't entertain our audience.

This is where I've added new bus stop scene . The reason for that is due to the timing of precious falling on the banana is quite short so through playing with the scenes around, by adding this scene quickly after she falls it would make sense that the bus leaves just after she slips on the banana. 

This is a new scene: In the story precious goes to shopping but we don't show her buying anything. But we can't have her coming to the park second day with nothing on her hand: we shot her going inside the park in second day with a bag to leave a hint for the audience that maybe she did spend the money on her shopping. I have speeded up the scene to 120% due to the timing of our film.  Our short film went over the minium time for it : it was 6 minutes. So I had to speed up the last scenes of her going into the park and coming out of the park. One scene where you see slow motion effect being introduced is the scene of her finding the envelope threatening her . One of our mentor told us that it's too quick to read the letter as we during our shooting we forgot to make the scene of her reading the letter for 5minute. Although we managed it by slowing up the scene. 

After all the scenes were added the soundtracks were then placed. I forgot to take pictures of me editing and putting the soundtrack however I have pictures of the types of soundtrack we have used. 

Editing part 8

  

 

 

This is our final editing 12:50 to 3:00

As you can see new scenes are still being edit. We have separated the old scenes from our editing part but a problem we have faced is that because we filmed few scenes more than twice it became hard for us to identify which scene is the perfect one and in order to look for the neatest and perfect scenes we had to remove the new scenes from the editing part and re-start everything from the beginning. This took us quite long time ( 1 hour 30 min). After that we replaced the new scenes from the start and then we added the old scenes which we need. At 2:00 we planned to finish adding soundtrack but due to our timing for the editing , we will start adding the soundtrack from 3:10. 

Editing part 7 (1st december)

9:00 to 11:40 : For today's editing I'm sorting out the  all the new scenes we shot. For e.g one of our improvement was to add expressions to imply the bad luck and in this image you can see her upset facial expression ( this is when she goes to the park).In order to improve all our scenes we did one scene more than ones so for certain shots we did like 10 times to make it perfect but some of the scenes are quite long and so we thought to change the speed of her (precious) walking towards the park.