Free Blog - Filming and beginning post-production

Last Wednesday (22nd March), our group were able to locate our 3 actors, a camera and a tripod and went out in hopes of recording our media coursework. In comparison to the Preliminary Exercise, we were a hundred times more organised which hopefully will aid our post production later in the week. We made sure we double filmed every frame and every shot and ticked frames of the storyboard as we individually took them.











* Organisation on our group hard-drive, so work was easier to find and we knew where we could find work we needed a lot quicker. This was vital.

Another problem we sorted out was the space we left either side of the 'performance' for editing, so during our recording we started the recording and THEN began the performance, so we didn't limit the shots we had. The whole day was very successful, and everyone got on really well so the process wasn't forced and stressful, but more relaxed and friendly. On return to class, we looked back at the recordings we had made and we all seemed very happy with our results.
But then we were told we weren't allowed to use copyright free music anymore, which was a huge blow to our production team, as we intended on using only music in our title sequence and silence all our recordings. This also means that we MAY have to re-record everything, because we have spoke over the top of all our recordings, to direct the actors, knowing that we'd silence them, so putting these in the final edit, would sound and look completely ridiculous. Our only options are to buy royalty free music, wait for our teacher to get in contact with our intended music company and re-ask permission or to write our own music. This has really hindered our expectations and hopes on the project, but we are carrying on regardless and beginning our editing and post-production, so if by chance the problem is resolved, we haven't wasted anytime doing nothing.