Editing

Film Trailer

Just like in my AS media coursework we used final cut express. We were all very familiar with this soft ware therefore it made it easier for us as a group. We remembered basic things but also had to use youtube and internet search engines to research how to use cretin filters, effects and how to add text. Once we had researched these entire things we found them very easy to pick up and use correctly.

The thing we found the most interesting was the motion speed tool. We loved the way it could make something look so dramatic and yet so subtle. We chose to speed up and slow down a 180 degree shot of Emily Hamer (Chloe). We chose to slow down the part where she is just standing there and we sped up the part where she is screaming.  

The music editing process

 As the was no actual speaking our film other than the narrative we planned to put at the beginning, music was extremely important to us.

The first piece of music we chose was the music we wanted to accompany the girls night out. We search non-copyright music in youtube and on this search engine we had a lot of different choices this however was our favourite as we felt it was young enough for the audience we were aiming for. It fits the genre very well as liquid drum and base.

The next thing we need was something to help us to disrupt the narrative, as well so we searched for un-copyrighted dramatic sounds.

The last piece of music we used was a piece called sailor and I. we slowed it right down, to help it fit in with our trailer better. This made it more emotionally gripping we found.

Filming Day 6

We decided to do a few more space filler shots. In order to enough footage for our trailer and to a lot replace anything we wanted to take out. We decided to do a shot showing how Chloe feels. We did this by getting Emily to stand very normally the screaming for as long as she could. We felt that the weather for this was perfect as the missed showed perfect pathetic fallacy as it was fogy and gloomy.

We also did a scene of Emily Read and Emily Hamer messing around together.

In this one we decided to make it look like the girls had their own video camera and were just messing around with it.

And in this one they are just being themselves and just chatting and laughing the way friends usually do.    

The final shot we decided to do was of Chloe looking drained during her pregnancy. We told Emily Hamer to talk of all her makeup and just stare blankly into the camera. We did due lighting to show how gloomy, her life is now is pregnant and how depressed she has gotten.   

Filming Day 5

During February we had some time off school. We found this to be the perfect opportunity from a Morning after shot. We filmed in our friend’s house that is male so we knew the bedroom would fit the scene. We planned to get a shot of Emily Hamers feet as she sneaked out of bed and also a shot of her waking up next to the estranged male.  

We also planned to get a shot of her ringing Frankie for help. This was key as it showed her complete dependence on Frankie.

As the day was ending we decided to shoot the scene of Chloe finding out she is pregnant. We depicted this by getting a scene of Emily Hamer crying on the floor with a pregnancy test in her hand.

Filming Day 4

We decided to use this day to do little filler shot that we would use to fill up any empty spaces we may have had in our trailer. So we all agreed on a pregnancy struggle scene and a driving scene.

We had a lot of trouble when it came to the pregnancy bump as the pregnancy bump we borrowed from child development did not give us our desired look. The bump was designed to feel like a pregnancy not to look like one. But unfortunately we had to make do with it.

The car scenes came out quite shaky. Myself and Emily Hamer filmed most of them it was very hard to keep the camera still. However most of the footage was very useful.       

Filming Day 3

Emily Hamer and Emily Read took the trains on the part of the film they decided to film themselves getting ready for a night out. I told them also to film while they were out, as it would go really well with the story line. So they also took the camera on their night out and got some really good shot that we could use for our trailer. A friend of Emily Hamers was more than happy to be in our film and even agreed to let us use his bedroom for the shot of ‘‘Chloe’’ sneaking out the next morning. He appeared also in the girl night out in a bar in Rochester in Kent.

The footage of the girls getting ready wasn’t great. We all deemed it too boring, but Emily Read had the idea to speed it up when the music in our trailer got fast. so we had that idea in the back of our heads.

Filming Day 2

We decided to film some shot reverse shot of Chloe breaking the new to Frankie that she’s pregnant. We also did some nice establishing shots. We filmed in a nature reserve in Medway as we thought the scene would look nice. We was lucky as that day it was raining and it gave our trailer that little bit more drama as it was pathetic fallacy as at the end of the scene she starts to cry and Frankie has to comfort her.