Production Diary Entry - 25/02/13

Filters, Cross Dissolves and Photoshop

Today we uploaded the footage we shot on Saturday, looking through and selecting favourite on sections of the clips on final cut to use in our sequence. We have really good footage of the woods scene, which means that we should be able to get really good continuity when we come to putting out footage together. When we come to making our rough cut for this scene we will add a filter through to dim the lighting, giving the appearance that the whole thing happened later than when we filmed it. One or two of the shots are out of focus slightly, but this isn't too noticeable and these shots probably won't be used anyway. We have a good variety of shots with good camera work for the woods part of our sequence, so hopefully it should turn out well in the final edit once we add in the effects and sound.
For the scene on the beach some of the shots have background sound that's going to be difficult to get the continuity of the group, and in a lot of cases the shots are too different to each other which further adds to the problem of continuity.
We talked to our teacher Michelle about creating a camera record effect, so the audience can tell the difference between what footage is the professional recording and which is meant to look like it's being filmed by the characters in the sequence. She said that to create this effect, we can either find or create our own version of the image we're looking for and layer it over the top in the edit. When we get our all of our footage in a rough edit we can start thinking about this, as well as any filters and cross dissolves.

Something like this to go over the shots 'recorded' by the characters

At the moment we're talking about re-filming this part of our sequence so we can get good continuity throughout our sequence and not just the woods scene, but we'll discuss this further on wednesday when we come to put the footage together, in case we're able to use it okay after all.