Soundtrack

Music

The music opens with a slow beat jazz riff that fades when the man in a suit receives a phone call. Then a drum beat plays over the foleys. The music carries on throughout both the man in suit and the drug house scenes. It starts fading out near the end of the intro and stops after the third knock on the door.

Foleys

We inserted the sound of a phone ringing when the mans phone rings. Another foley that we used was the sounds of the door shutting at both shots of the door closing.

Diegetic sound

We decided to keep the diegetic sound of the footsteps going up the stairs because the sound of the echoing footsteps in the stairs sounded better than the foleys. The only other diegetic sound that we used was the sound of the door buzzer.

Non-diegetic sound

The non-diegetic sound used on our soundtrack is the sound of traffic in the scene when the man in the suit is on the street waiting for the call. We faded the volume into and out of the scenes of the drug house to make it seem like the traffic was only in the man in suit scene.

Editing Process

just finished editing the rough copy without sound and effects, it took us around 3 lessons due to the fact that some of our group has to go re film specific scenes as the previous footage was blurry as we accidentally left the camera on manual. Not only that but our clips kept getting lost as they were not on the video drive previously. The fact that we over filmed ment we were able to use the best clip and angles that worked.

During editing we found it difficult at first as we were unsure of all tools that we could use to help shape and trim our scenes however we then got the hang of it and the editing process became increasingly easier as we went along due to the in and out process and the shaving tool.

Production company

Candi Studios
Previously we had chosen a big production company but soon realized that our opening would be very amateur, so using the feedback given to us we went on to find a more suitable production company.

The production company that we would use for our film would be Candi Studios. Our reason being that it is an independent film production company. It's also suits our low budget film very well. Lastly, it is a student film production company, and out film is a student film. 

It makes much more sense to use this company as oppose to one that is of high budget as our film is a student film and costs nothing to make. 

2nd day of filming

2nd day of filming

On the second day we filmed , we got started pretty quick . However the journey there took quite a while to get there and the weather was not so good. We started filming straight away but the filming took quite some time . We first filmed the outside scene in the public area so we found it very difficult to do as people walk walk into the camera so we had to find a space to place the camera where no one would interrupt . Also like mentioned , the weather was bad as it began to snow half way through filming so we had to protect the electrical equipment . The weather condition also lead to filming our scenes as fast as we could as it was cold which meant we were not using our acting to our full potential. Then we started filming indoors , it was very cramped and small so it was hard placing the camera in different places for different angles. We did not think about spacing for equipment which was a downfall. Also we realised half way through filming that some of our footage were blurry so we had to re-film on a different day.

Filming again

We had a slight problem the first time filming Ian's scene the first time with a few of the shots, as some of the clips came out blurry. This meant that me (Luke) and Ian had to go back to the location (Holborn) and film some of the shots again.

I think this was a good idea anyway as we had already finished filming ahead of schedule, so this way we had an extra day to fall back on if anything went wrong. Going back to the location also meant that we could include more shots as well as re-filming the blurry ones.

Besides this slight problem, the rest of the filming went very smoothly with no problems, and even though this problem did occur, as explained above we were able to re-film and also include more to improve or thriller.

Media Pitch presentation

Screen Grabs of editing process

When we first started editing we had some trouble remembering exactly how to place the footage into the programe. For a whole lesson we edited it in a completely different way we were taught to , we had to use a special tool to trim our scenes down to the parts we specificly needed which took us quite a while to do but then again gave us more knowledge on what some of the tools did. When finally remembering the way we were taught to edit which was the in and out process, we began to proceed rapidly with our editing .