Production Log 9

During this week, we have been editing our opening sequence in which I have faced many difficulties. Although in the beginning, when I imported all the shots to the library, and placed them in order, the total time was too short after I had trimmed the clips. So to resolve this, I had to put the production company logo and institutional logo on a black screen and increase the duration of these slides to increase the overal running time of the opening sequence. Then, I noticed minor problems such as, very slightly breaking the 180 degree rule and there not being a good and consistent eyeline match in some cases as well as a few jumps. So to fix this, I had to cut the hot and put other extra shots from other clips and close ups to make the whole piece run smoother. The slight jump cut that could not be resolved had to be cut and I had to put the the film title 'Bridges' on a black screen. All the other credits as you would have noticed run over the film at the bottom out of the way. We turned to our peers for some constructive criticism, which turned out to be very helpful for us because their response stated that by putting 'Bridges' on a black screen makes the title stand out to the audience and outlines it's importance to the film. Another problem we faced was the sound. The sound was probably the hardest thing to edit to perfection because as I had to cut and replace shots, the soundtrack did not match the image smoothly at times and shifted the entire sound from the clips along. In the beginning, it was unnoticable, but towards the end when there was very little dialogue then this was a huge problem as the image and sound were asynchronous. To resolve this issue I had to crop the relevant part from the soundtrack, remove all the sound from the actual shots and extend it across till the character took off his headphones as this is shown as non diagetic sound. Then another problem which occurred after this was we had not counted for the time in which we had placed the black screen title in the middle. Placing this clip in the middle, meant that there was ambient sound within the clip either end of the black screen, except the 3 seconds the title 'Bridges' had to appear. The best method in which we ammended this was by removing ambient sound recorded when shooting the establishing shot of the location and pasting it over the 'Bridges' slide. The problem with this, which we only picked up on after was that we used sound from an external location for an internal location which made the sound not balance when played together. When doing it, we did not see this problem, but watching back on it the next day, to have a final thorough check, we identified the fact that it did not match well but did the best we possibly could. If I were to have done this again, then I would remove all the sound from the whole openeing sequence and use soundtracks and voiceovers as dialogue which would improve the clarity of speech as well as remove any uneccessary background sound.

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