Edit 4

We all met up today at the studio, to discuss and make changes to the film

I made a list of jobs for everyone, so that we could move as quickly as possible.
For instance,
Me and Alice spent the first hours creating the soundtrack, while Georgia and Luke checked the edit for continuity and bad transitions.
After we'd done that Alice and Georgia would work on syncing up the music to the timeline, while me and luke rewrote the voice over.
Georgia and me then recorded the voice-over, while Luke and Alice put markers on the timeline.
We all then gathered round the edit station and watched it come together.

We decided to save these changes, and then cut down the actual clips. It took 6 hours in total, plus an extra hour to make an opening ident.

Film Music

I came up with an idea for the music to our film. i recorded this as a first draft

Audience Reviews

The conclusions that were drawn from all these reviews were that the voiceover isn't effective enough, and in some parts it didn't make sense. We need music. Everybody in the class discussion felt like there should be music throughout most of the piece. They also thought that the driving sequence was too long, and we needed to cut out a lot of shots.

On a positive note, everyone loved our film. There was lots of talk about how good it was, and how the camera angles and storyline were very effective. 

Luke developed a system to work out the average score for the film, which was 8.2.

we were all extremely happy with it.

Edit 3

We had another 'editing sunday'.

This was a very productive day, seeing as we can't get much work done in school because the edit stations are shared. We avoided this problem by having the work saved on a portable hard drive, so that any mac with Final Cut could read and edit our clips. This let us work in school and at my studio. We decided to make use of the sundays because everyone was free.

We managed to get down the basic structure of it all, we took it in turns to edit various sections.
Heres some screenshots of what we did

On this picture in the centre box, you can see an audio file as we chop the bad bits out and adjust the volume

We're adjusting the colour on this clip, as the white balance was slightly off, and i wanted to have the shaving foam and the shirt very white to symbolise purity, as if he hadn't done anything wrong.

This is just before he cuts himself. We needed to change the colour again to make the blood look real enough. We had used food colouring on the edge of a razor, and it was far too bright for our liking.

                            This is our entire audio track. As you can see we have a lot to work with.

Edit 2

We edited for another 5 hours today, we managed to get a lot of work done. It was productive as everyone had the same ideas, and it just seemed to click all of a sudden.
We've done about half of the edit now, and we're happy with what we have.

Initial Mindmap

This was our initial mind-map which prompted the first group meeting. We each brainstormed out individual ideas, then compromised with each other as we combined them together. That way everyone was happy, and the film would be equally shared.

Film Idea

Georgia came up with the idea of finding a body in a car boot. This seemed to get everyones attention, because its easy to pull off, with minimal costs, and because i can drive we could film it on location wherever we wanted. I added the idea that we should present him as a normal man, who leads a secret life of murder. Luke added the idea that he worked for someone else, and was meerly doing a job of kidnapping someone, and delivering them to a destination. We combined all these ideas and came up with a script and shot list:

The title sequence opens to a man shaving in the mirror. This presents him as a normal man. He then does his tie in the mirror. this will be a 180* shot, which is extreamly hard to pull off with a mirror. He then grabs his car keys, sais goodbye to his wife and gets in his car. He drives to an industrial state, where he pulls up and opens his boot. Theres a body in the back, screaming and struggaling to get out. this is where the sequence ends.