Flicka Films Vlog

Myself, Sam and Jamie all had free periods one afternoon so we decided to do a little vlog on how the production of Black Out has been going.

Watch the vlog here..

Black Out 2nd Draft

After editing together the second half of the film, I then gave it to George to edit the 1st and 2nd half together to bring in the next day. Here is the outcome of the 2nd Draft, I feel it is a big improvement on the 1st draft as there are more shots which add story to the film, there are more elements of sound and music as well which does help give the film more depth. The biggest improvement we made was that we filmed at the toilets in the station which is the main location, this ensures that the film seems more realistic as the flow of continuity doesn't break.

There are still some improvements to be made on the 2nd draft such as including more sound/music and just cleaning up the edit through the use of cuts and placements.

Re-editing...

Having Re-shot the entire second half of the film it was down to me to take the camera home with all the new shots to re-edit the second half. When I got home I decided to edit all of it in that one night so I took several hours out of my time to power through the editing, it was quite easy at first because all that was needed was to place the clips in chronological order along the timeline but then I decided to experiment with different effects and sounds to see what would work and what wouldn't.

After 2-3 hours of editing I managed to re-edit the second half of the film with some new shots, new sound and music added in. I then needed to transfer the newly edited second half of the film onto a USB memory stick so that George can edit together both parts of the film on his laptop and then bring the 2nd draft in the next day.

Location 3 - Riverside Toilets!

While filming we managed to get some on set vlog footage which shows the new location we were re-shooting at which was the Riverside station toilets. As text can be boring at times this is a great way of showing of the location and interacting with us and the blog much easier.

Re-shot and soon to be Re-edited..

After receiving some much needed feedback for our 1st draft, as a group we decided to re-shoot the enitre second half of the film. We were in luck as we still had access to a camera and tri-pod.
We then sent another email to South West Trains on Tuesday so we could get permission to film at the toilets on Thursday of the same week. They replied saying it was absolutely fine to film on Thursday 31st March.
In the morning we all headed down during our Media lesson and we filmed everything we needed, including new shots and angles which we feel will add more story to the film and be an improvement on the 1st Draft.

Here is a short video of what we got up to on location...

Black Out 1st Draft

Hey guys, this is the 1st draft of our film "Black Out" this is a very rough edit because there a few things we need to sort out such as music and sound, the 2nd half we didn't do much experimenting so we literally just pieced the clips together as we had them to see how the film worked. We also found out that it was too obvious to see how the toilet scene is a different location.
We let Mr. Titheridge watch our 1st draft and he gave us some key feedback we needed to re-shoot the toilets scene but actually do it at the Train station toilets to allow continuity to flow.
He also advised that we should try to add more of a storyline to the film by adding more meaningful shots so that there aren't too many unanswered questions at the end because sometimes that's not the best thing.

We will the toilet scene and a part of the 1st scene to ensure we get the best footage we can.

How's The Editing Going?

We a re slowly progressing through this stage of post-production, as we are editing on George's laptop we are limited to when we can all sit down as a group. However George does manage to bring his laptop in on the days where we have Media lessons so we can also work in our free periods.
We have pieced together the timelapse and the outcome looks great. I will also upload several screenshots or maybe a video to show how it's done.
The editing stage and piecing every clip together will show us what went wrong during filming and what we need to go back and re-shoot, one of the things that we are mainly concerned about is the toilet scene because we filmed it completely away from the 1st location so it may break continuity.

I will update you on how the editing went in the next couple posts..