Post-production

Post-production

Post-production is part of the editing process, when all the filming is complete and the directors and producers have to scan over the clips they have filmed and replay them to see if there is anything they need to re-film. The worst part of post-production is realising you have forgotten to film something so you have to go out and re-film, this affects the continuity of the film as the weather may be different, or the location may have changed in some sort of way.

When we went through our clips, especially with the running scenes, we noticed that they have ended to early, meaning our protagonist does not leave the frame, however luckily we though up of a solution, and this was to merge the running scenes together so they cut from one clip to another without noticing the early ending. There were lots of things which we felt could have gone better, for example the placement of the branches and leaves obscuring the view of the runner, if we looked back over the clip when filming we would have noticed that our protagonist is barely noticeable, in this case we could have chopped the branches down smaller so the shot would have been more effective, luckily this was not a major flaw. We also felt that we should have filmed more running scenes, this is so we could have more of an option to play around with, without being limited. Luckily there were not any major errors which arose, so luckily we felt the editing process was not too stressful. Overall we filmed about 1hr 40mins worth of footage, this is a lot of footage to cut down in to the time bracket of two minutes.

So far our film is still over the limit at 2mins 35secs, this is increasing the pressure to cut down on footage, and is making the decision making difficult. We have cut down a lot of tracking shots with our antagonist which has reduced the time, this has also worked in our favour as the film looks much neater without the constant following of our antagonists route. We still have more cutting down to do as we still need to incorporate the production companies, however we are slowly but surely getting there.