What we have left to do

We still have a fair amount left to do although I don't think it's something that is unmanageable.
We need to finish editing in the sense that we need to put titles onto our opening and make sure there are no problems with continuity or the way the shots run and that the editing of the shots together is seamless so as not to destroy the illusion of reality for the viewer. We also need to organize our peer evaluation questionaire and get that filled out by our target audience when we first screen our opening sequence so that we can go back to editing and respond to the criticism. Lastly we need to add the audio to our sequence by removing the voices and noise from the clips and adding in the song chosen over the top of all of it to make a more of a mime film over something where you can hear each word said. We decided to do this to leave more to the viewers imagination. I think this is a very good idea as it doesn't make the film as straightforward which links into our thriller genre as often thrillers are more psychological over outright horror.

Overall, I think we are doing quite well and don't see that we are running out of time or should be under a huge amount of pressure to complete everything. I am very pleased with the rate at which we are working.

Editing on my own for the first time.

Today, I was the only member of my group present and so I took it upon myself to try and get the rest of the film put together. I struggled a little bit to start off with as I had never used Final Cut Express before and had only watched Anna edit. However, once I got used to it I found the putting together of the clips really easy. Toward the end, I really struggled with getting a title on the film and it took me about 20 minutes however I did it on my own and managed to get it on there in the end just by playing around with the program. There is still a bit of work to go but I think what I did today helped a lot and saved a lot of time for the group as a whole.

Editing our sequence

We began editing our sequence last week and have already encountered some problems with the continuity of the film and attempting to edit shots together. Some of the shots are good in places and then bad in others however we took a few different shots of the same thing so trying to edit them together has been quite difficult. Overall, editing so far has been good although the time we have is running short and I'm a bit worried we might not finish on time.