Post Production Report

Once we had finished filming we then had to log all of the footage we captured. This took us a long time because we had captured 11 minutes of footage. After doing this and looking through our footage we then realised we had not filmed different shot sizes. Luckily we did not come across any brakes in time whilst filming.

When then had to film the shot sizes we needed this was harder to log because we then experienced brakes in time.

After finally capturing all of our footage we could start to properly edit it. We began by putting all of our clips in the right order on the timeline and this was when it all started to come together. Between some of our clips we had a flash which indicated that the next scene was a flashback. At first we found this difficult as the sound of the Detective taking the picture didn’t match the sound of the flashback. To overcome this problem we overlapped the two shots so that when the Detective took the picture we would be able to hear the begging of the flashback (as shown in the screen shot).

After watching it several times it became clear that there was nothing to show that the flashbacks were in fact flashbacks. To show the difference of time period we decided to use a contrast of colour by making the flashbacks black and white (as shown in the screen shot).

Once edited we then had to put titles. We had to decide where to put them within our opening sequence and how they would come up on the screen. We also had to decide on colours and fonts. Where we were unsure of what titles would appear we left spaces in the timeline for us to come back to at a later date (as shown in the screen shot). Eventually we decided the order of our titles; we did this by looking at the timelines of other crime film title in order to keep ours the same. We also had to make sure that the title of the film wasn’t the last titles to appear otherwise it would resemble a trailer rather than an opening sequence.