post production: pt1

Just over a week after we filmed our opening sequence we got to start the editing of our opening sequence. As i was the editor/ the main editor i edited the most. the only time i wasn't editing was the few times i wasn't there are at least one of the members of the group was at the computer. 

On the Monday of our 1 week of editing we spent the lesson looking through all of our footage. We labeled the footage we liked and didn't name the footage we didn't want to use. We created 5 bins are moved the footage into the bin they were meant to be in.

the bins we had were:

1. Zaza (girl 1) - where were put all of girl 1's shots 
2. Daisy (girl 2) - where we put all of Daisy's shots
3. Stuart (hunter 2) - where we put all of Stuarts' shots
4. Mike (hunter 1) - where we put all of Mike's shots
5. girl 3 - where we put all of girl 3's shots  

We then came back the next day in our lesson and started to edit the footage (just the picture bit of it) and put it into the order we wanted to so that we could create the story we wanted and also build tension in the sequence. We spent 2 lesson and free time editing the video side of the sequence. 

When were looking through the footage and got to the one shot we had of Mike killing Zaza we realised that he put a little too much force on the knife so it can clearly be seen bending which can break the atmosphere of the sequence slightly. We did not take anymore shots of the killing of Zaza so we had to keep this shot in the scene. 

in shots that go after each other the continuity was sometimes messed up due to the hunters holding the shotgun the other way to which they were holding it in the previous shot. To fix it we had to edit it in a way to make it look like they were able to switch the gun in their hands without it just suddenly changing hands.

we chose to take out the shot of Stuart walking out of the starts of our sequence as we thought that it didn't really work as being the opening shot of the sequence. It instead starts straight into the action of Zaza running away from the hunters and getting shot and killed. the shot of Stuart walking though the forest is too peaceful where were want our sequence to open up on a hectic and action filled shot. We chose to not add this shot in the sequence as the only place it would fit is at the start and we don't want it there so were just didn't include it. 

We filmed a shot were we panned across the trees then tilted down to look at the girl running where we panned to follow her running. This shot suggested at the start a calm forest but after tilting down we see that the forest is chaotic. We didn't end up using this shot as we didn't like how the pan to tilt to pan looked. We thought it made the shot look really bad. If we used this it could have made the sequence look bad. We would have used this at the start of the sequence but Zaza running in a different shot is a better than this shot.