Production Log 2

what progress did you make since your last entry?

This week we first uploaded all the footage we had recored last week. After it was finished uploading we started to put all the footage in place and cut all the shots as we went along so they only contained the relevant footage from the each shot. Once this was done, minus the train scene, we noticed we had 43 seconds of footage, making not having the train scene much less of an issue, in fact it saved us time picking what scenes to remove to cut the advert down to the 30seconds. Removing the train scene would of been the best choice as well due to it being the the only scene that does not connect to another scene in a storyline. After we cut the remaining shots down to make it 30seconds we quickly found some instrumental music that fitted the story well.
Being ahead of schedule we carried on with the editing by splitting the last two tasks up, my partner when to record the voice over while i created and imported the graphics into the timeline. Once this was completed we went though the full advert multiple times tweaking little bits to make it more smooth and adding transitions and then we were completely finished wit the editing of the advert.

What logistical challenges did you face and how did you overcome them?

We where lucky to not find any major issues while editing our footage and therefore did not need to re-film or adjust any of our plans. Following on from last weeks entry about the train scene turned out to become no problem after all as we would of had to cut out that shot anyway to make the advert fit into it 30second time slot.
Finding music for the advert would of be our only challenge but as we both individually searched and sourced a number of ideas to present to each other on our next editing day. we found one that fit the story and mood of the advert perfectly. This would of been a bigger concern if we waited till editing days to looks for music but we both looked at a number of background music in our free time.

what techincal challenges did you face this week and how did you overcome them?

Luckily enough we only have one technical challenge that we had to overcome during the post-production stage, this was with the graphics as the effect of making each word face each one after the next was become difficult to produce using the the program we used for making the graphics. As a solution we just spend up the footage so the letters faced in faster together so that it doesn't seem too slow when the voice over is saying the slogan. This actually worked out for the best because before we slowed it down the graphic's animation was too long for the final frame therefore speeding the graphics animation made it so it fitted nicely in time with the slogan and the finishing shot.

what targets do you aim to acheive before your next entry?

due to finishing the editing early and already going though it for improvements, we have nothing planned for the following two weeks. One thing we will have to do is upload our finished advert, but other than that we have no other tasks to complete.