We chose to use Sony Vegas Pro 9 as one of our team members, Matt Williams already knew how to use it and we felt that we would waste time if we all had to learn how to use Final Cut Pro.
We edited our scenes separately before putting them all together, we found this was easier as we could edit things more easily without upsetting the rest of the footage. While we were editing we kept the footage in colour deciding to change the film to black and white when it was all together so it would be all the same tones. We also added some of the sound to our film while the scenes were still separate, mainly due to the fact we wanted to experiment with what worked well and what didn't. We then worked out how long our film would be, it turned out that the film was just over 8 minutes long. We then started to cut some of the less important clips these mainly included; some establishing shots, the getting ready scene and office scenes. As we had shot some footage that wasn't particularly important to the storyline but just helped to make the film more visually interesting. We also deciding due to time limitations to do the voice over the scenes rather than having a still which is what we first intended to do.
We then put our whole film together and found it to be around 6 minutes long. We then added/edited sounds to either make them slightly longer or shorter we also made them fade in the right places to fit in with the beginning and end of various scenes. The voice over was also added at this point. We were again able to cut out unwanted footage making our film closer to the 5 minutes target. We also chose to make some scenes shorter that dragged on a bit or went on longer than necessary. To make our film look more professional we added in our production company along with the actors names at the start, we wanted to do this also to save time at the end as we wouldn't have to put credits in and our film would also therefore have a more powerful ending. It wasn't until we were happy with the length of our film that we put it all into black and white making sure it was all the same and constant. Watching it back we looked out for any mistakes and tried to iron out all the problems.
One main thing we noticed was there were frequent black flashes throughout our film, once we worked out it was the split second between scenes that weren't close enough together, we tried to solve this problem and we were able to get rid of a few of the flashes but some we were unable to remove, overall I don't think they effect the film too much but they are slightly distracting once you notice them. After watching it back again we felt that something was missing and our film lacked authentic sound so we went online and found some sound effects to add in to make our film feel more realistic. We then rendered and exported our final film.
We edited our scenes separately before putting them all together, we found this was easier as we could edit things more easily without upsetting the rest of the footage. While we were editing we kept the footage in colour deciding to change the film to black and white when it was all together so it would be all the same tones. We also added some of the sound to our film while the scenes were still separate, mainly due to the fact we wanted to experiment with what worked well and what didn't. We then worked out how long our film would be, it turned out that the film was just over 8 minutes long. We then started to cut some of the less important clips these mainly included; some establishing shots, the getting ready scene and office scenes. As we had shot some footage that wasn't particularly important to the storyline but just helped to make the film more visually interesting. We also deciding due to time limitations to do the voice over the scenes rather than having a still which is what we first intended to do.
We then put our whole film together and found it to be around 6 minutes long. We then added/edited sounds to either make them slightly longer or shorter we also made them fade in the right places to fit in with the beginning and end of various scenes. The voice over was also added at this point. We were again able to cut out unwanted footage making our film closer to the 5 minutes target. We also chose to make some scenes shorter that dragged on a bit or went on longer than necessary. To make our film look more professional we added in our production company along with the actors names at the start, we wanted to do this also to save time at the end as we wouldn't have to put credits in and our film would also therefore have a more powerful ending. It wasn't until we were happy with the length of our film that we put it all into black and white making sure it was all the same and constant. Watching it back we looked out for any mistakes and tried to iron out all the problems.
One main thing we noticed was there were frequent black flashes throughout our film, once we worked out it was the split second between scenes that weren't close enough together, we tried to solve this problem and we were able to get rid of a few of the flashes but some we were unable to remove, overall I don't think they effect the film too much but they are slightly distracting once you notice them. After watching it back again we felt that something was missing and our film lacked authentic sound so we went online and found some sound effects to add in to make our film feel more realistic. We then rendered and exported our final film.
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