Post 17: Post-Production Report

The first part of our post-production process was to capture the scenes we needed or final editing. We did this by plugging the camera into the edit suite and creating a logging rushes table to select which scenes we were and weren't going to use. This is our table

Once we had captured the scenes we wanted we then began editing. The first thing we did was create a rough cut, we put all the scenes in order together to get a rough idea of what the final piece would look like. Once we had done this we then went back through and looked at each scene to check things like continuity and whether it flowed together in the way we wanted it to. This is when we found that our opening scene of Billy walking out of his house was a bit too bright and didn't really fit too well. We then discussed a re-shoot and after talking with everyone in the group we decided it would be best if we filmed it again. Once we had re-filmed this scene it looked a lot better and fitted into the rest of the film as we had hoped. We also saw that some of the scenes didn't really show the type of style of film that we wanted and so we decided to use some jump cuts in order to show the style we intended. We've added the jump cuts in places like when Billy is running, and by doing this we hope that the audience will be able to feel empathy with Billy and see that he is running and running until he finally reaches somewhere where he can no longer run. Once this was completed we cut the rest of the shots together and made a final visual cut. We then went back through and made sure the sound levels were consistent throughout as some scenes when we filmed them were slightly louder than others. We also had a bit of trouble with the mum in the car scene and so we had to play with the sound levels in order to get the right look and feel we wanted. Once all this was done we then added a few effects, for example lighting. We wanted to use natural lighting throughout our film and some shots were slightly brighter than others and so we had to add a few lighting effects to make the lighting seem consistent throughout the length of the film. We had also created our own sound, we used a piano sound which we had made and the sound from a hand dryer to create the atmosphere we were hoping for. Once we had added these sounds in the correct places our short film was completed.