"So it's filmed, now what?"

Thanks to the Wharf Bar in Walsall, we finally managed to get our footage filmed. After being promised a venue and turned down only too many times, we were allowed into the Wharf and got our time needed so a big thanks must go to them. Here's what happened on the night of filming and after.

The first shot in our project: Sams Car. We filmed Sam turning the keys in the ignition of his car and then we filmed him simply pulling off his drive in the rain, luckily for him he was in the car not getting soaked! After this it was into the car for me, and onto the Wharf!

So The Wharf Bar had allowed us in and we took it only with huge relief. We didn't want to be complacent so set straight about getting to our filming, the first part of this was to see Sam drive onto the Wharf car park and then cut to him inside the bar. After a few hours of being on the fruit machine, pretending to drink beer, him characteristically being angry at his Dad (who also deserves thanks for starring in the film) and aquiring a smile from a very lovely barmaid we were finished filming for the night and we set off our seprate ways.

*Phone Call from Sam* "One of the pieces of footage is missing, we need to go back tommorow!"

So back to the Wharf it was the next day. Only too kindly did the manager let us back in but told us we had 5 minutes and we were to be gone! We took this thankfully and got the shot we needed and then on to the editing it was.

So after filming on the 20th of November, we finally had all of our footage and it did only take us the three hours we anticipated(Plus an extra 10 minutes the next day as we didn't have one of the shots we wanted but who's counting). So next, we set down to editing our footage.

Three hours may not seem like a long time but finding the 2 minutes and 21 seconds of footage that we wanted from it sure was harder than we expected, however like most tasks in our production, my partner(Sam) and I bounced off each other and came through it. In our first week in the edit suite, we sifted through all our footage and chose what we wanted and attempted to assemble it in some sort of order which thankfully we managed to do. I think at the first attempt we had about 4 minutes of footage to squeeze in to a song, just over half the length. As the next few weeks progressed, Sam and I managed to get all the footage in we needed and with a very steady hand, Sam managed to lay the track and move the footage perfectly so that the lip syncing looked professionally done: No easy feat i might add.

After the video and audio were in sync, we started to play around with final cut pro and we added in some transitions and some edits, all of which would differ on the mood of the song at that current time. For instance, there is a part in the song where it slows down and become more ambient and mellow, thus is reflected in the chosen transition. We feel this was most effective in our work as it represented what we know about media and how well we could do things to improve our work and get the best possible mark for it.

As time was drawing to a close on "deadline day" we didn't really want to do too much more to our film incase we runied it, or god forbid, got an even better idea for it that would take too long to do, so we just kept it how it was. We knew this was okay to do as the feedback we got from our audiences was pretty incredible. A lot of 5's out of 5's and the only comments really were on how we could have chose a different song, just so we would have had more to do in terms of length of music. This made us relax a bit and sit back and watch our film many, many times over and maybe too confidentally, dream of an oscar award!