How Things went...

Now that we have successfully completed our final piece of work we can look back on what went well and the problems we encountered.

Success'

• When we planned to film we were expecting an ordinary winters evening which would have been suitable for us. However when we arrived at our chosen location it began to snow. This worked perfectly for us as this created an eerie and mysterious setting. The only problem filming during the heavy snow showers was that it was extremely cold, plus the snow began to settle on the actors and the camera lenses however this created a sense of realism.
• Our choice of non-diegetic music ( Why so serious, soundtrack from Dark Knight ) makes our piece of work seem realistic and creates tension throughout. We used asynchronous sound as well which emphasized that something key is taking place, also to illustrate the main characters. We had to choose between two different soundtracks, to use in our film, we experimented in our editing which one would be suitable, our editing came to a conclusion and we decided to mix the two soundtracks together with the "Dark Knight" soundtrack fading into the "Ave Maria" music.
• In editing we aimed to have a flowing film, with seamless transitions between shots. We feel this went well and that the film naturally flows from shot to shot.

Problems

• Half way through editing we found out that the maximum length our film could be was 2:20. At this point this gave us a huge problem as the length of our project was around 2:40. So as a group we decided what parts should be cut out to try and shorten it down to meet the requirements set by the exam board. After we completed this we had to re-time all the music and all the shot transitions.
• When capturing the footage from the camera, we found out that some shots we thought we had filmed were either to short, or weren't actually filmed. We overcame this problem with good use of editing.
• The music we chose to use was very difficult to get hold of and once we did get the music, we had the problem of trying to synchronize it to the footage. This took us valuable time but we overcame this problem with good management of time.
• When we arrived at our location to film, we encountered a big problem. The car park we chose to film in, was closed. This gave us no other option but to film outside the car park, as time was against us. Later when editing we realised that filming outside turned out to be a big advantage for us, as the sudden fall in snow made the film look eerie and created a certain atmosphere.

• Ross, Jinesh and Greg helped with further material.