Prelim Post Production Blog

From the shots that we produced in the prelim task we had to edit the shots to make one smooth continuous film. We started doing this by watching back the footage, checking for continuity in the shots. This is where we had to make sure that all the shots were the same, for example the actors were moving their hands in exactly the same position each time etc.  We then gathered all the shots in the rushes bin and then logged our desired takes of each style of shot—wide shots and over the shoulder shots—into the log bin. We did this by deciding which shots had the best features like focus, white balance etc. We then put the chosen shots onto the timeline and cut them to get the desired piece of dialogue. The shots that we ended up selecting best showed the correct shots in relation to the storyboard. We didn’t always follow the storyboard exactly, we also included extra shots with close ups like the rubix cubes to make the storyboard more interesting. We cut shots like this into lines that still made sense without seeing the actors face to make the overall sequence more diverse and entertaining.