Filming and Editing

Were currently in the process of editing our short film, as we have completed almost all of the filming, however we do have one shot to re-do, as we weren't pleased with the way it turned out. It's going really well and we are happy with the way our film looks. We have gained some interesting feedback from our peers and teachers who have helped us to change some important parts to ensure continuity and engage our intended audience. We also need to create titles and credits to insert into the film as it is currently 4 minutes long and the approxiamate appropriate time would be 5 minutes long. We have had certain ideas regarding the titles, for example theme flashing across the screen after our running man has ran past, or quick bursts every couple of 2 seconds.


During editing we have had some trouble incorporating our split screen theme which will really finish off and polish our final film, however we are working hard on it, with the help of our teachers. We don't feel there would be a better way of showing two seperate, yet comencing at the same time, storylines. We have done a number of practise split screens though and they have proved to be successful.


Our ancillary tasks are nearly complete, with just a little work needing to be done on the film poster. We created the Review Film Page using Photoshop in which I reviewed the independent film, by Paul Andrew Williams, London to Brighton. I researched into online film reviews and was interested in Empire, which specialise in online reviews.

I liked the layout of the Empire review and made sure that I took into the consideration of the size of font and picture. I named my magazine 'Motion' as I felt it was appropriate due to the film reference. I wanted it to be colourful and bold so that it would stand out, also it works well with the film poster which uses a lot of the same colours, e.g. red, white and black and the font is big and different. Overall, I found it hard to use Photoshop as it is complicated, yet in the end it gave us a good result which, combined with our film and poster all work well together as an overall project.

I also looked at more online reviews on sites like http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/, which enables users to give a rating on selected films.