Production Log - Week 8.

In the first lesson this week my partner and I continued editing our footage. We had to finish cutting and repositioning a couple of shots. When this was complete we started paying attention to more detail in our opening sequence. The only piece of dialogue heard in our opening sequence from a character comes from Leah's neighbour. In a couple of the shots we decided to use an audio overlap as it is very conventional of the British social realist genre and we felt it worked quite effectively in our opening sequence. Looking more into detail, as we see the neighbour coming out of the flat behind Leah, we decided to edit the dialogue coming from the neighbour in the audio overlap and make it quieter as it was better for the sound perspective because there was quite some distance between the two characters.



In the second lesson this week my partner and I put in the song we decided to use composed by a friend of mine - Camille Andrea titled 'O.V.E.R', (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncWv9YYop8I). We had to pay a lot of attention to detail as we had to cut the song in a range of places to make the audience think it was diegetic music that Leah was listening to through her headphones, this took a lot of playing around with the volume of dialogue from the neighbour and the actual song.



In our third lesson of the week we had 15 minutes at the beginning of the lesson to complete our draft opening sequence. After this 15 minutes my partner and I had to showcase our opening sequence to the other pair in our class, based on or draft opening sequence they gave us some feedback on what was good about our current opening sequence and what we could do to improve it. We also watched their opening sequence and gave them some feedback. The feedback we had received was constructive criticism, as well as some strengths of our opening sequence so far. My partner and I were very appreciative of the criticism we gained as we felt it would help us produce a good final opening sequence along with a better grade.

In the fourth and final lesson of this week of production we listed all of the shots that we needed to re-film based on the constructive criticism we received, we also discussed what shots we had to remove due to the amendments we were making.

What have been the key issues for your post-production this week?

The key issues for my post-production this week were figuring out how to extract the audio from a clip of our footage to place it elsewhere, over other clips to create an audio overlap.

What decisions did you make about the issues and why?

After playing around with different tools and options, my partner and I learnt how to extract the audio and managed to do the audio overlap we intended to do.