Post Production: Part 1

 This blog post is about the first few days of editing our opening sequence.

First of all when we walked into the editing suite, we all got allocated our own Mac for each of our groups, and sat down at the one we got chosen to work on. We then got to look through all of the footage from the day which we were very happy with, however some of the major footage had some issues which would make our job editing later on a lot harder than needed. For example continuity issues and also some slight problems with the prosthetic gash on the main actors leg. 

We then started to pull in some footage onto the timeline and choosing the shots we liked best, for each scene, to narrow down all of the shots into the ones needed. An early decision we had to make was not using curtain camera angles when the girl was sliding over the bonnet of the car, due to continuity mistakes where she wasn't located in the same spot, therefore we had to use a more mid/close up shot instead of a wide, to hide the fact she was in a different positioning. Another early choice was to use the running hand held action shot going into the garage due to the other tri-pod mounted shot lacking in tension and fear, compared to the more shaky ones.