Media Studies (Film Opening) Week 13 - Editing feedback / Editing progress

 10/Apr 

Today, John and I received the rough final production from Ruguosier. John and I were telling him the details and what we wanted more of. Ruguosier only edited scenes 1 to 7. But the time was over 2 minutes already. Me and John gave him many feedbacks to reduce the length of the film and also to improve the quality of our film.

What I asked for Ruguosier :

  • Increase the clock ticking sound for the library scene.

  • Make the shot a little shorter (back part).

  • Title for shot 1, but subtitle and actress’s name for shot 3

  • Supermarket Olivia's walking scene looks kind of awkward, so I asked Ruguosier to use fade-in to start Olivia's walking scene (scene 4).

  • Shorten Olivia's walking scene for the supermarket scene (scene 4).

  • Shorten shot 1 a bit (like 2 seconds)  (it will stay on the screen for a while even if we make them shorter).

  • Reduce the exposure for scene 2.

  • Kid’s noise from shot 2 to shot 3 (first shot 3): make the sound fade out and decrease the sound as the scene goes.

 
What John asked for Ruguosier (from John's group chat message):
  • Shot 3—> 4 seems a bit weird if we don’t know the background. The uniform seems a bit off with the time setting. It seems like the same day.
  • And the transition from scene 2 to scene 3 needs some more fluent cuts in between them.
  • Maybe we can shorten them in the side view part of the scene 3 tracking shot.
  • The font is sharp and thin. Is that the final font?
  • I bet we can reduce shot 4, where Wai Yan bumps Grace. Guess that part’s taking too long, along with Esther’s shot.
  • I think we only need a soundtrack now. It’ll tense our mood straight up.

I cannot upload our final production because it is too big to upload here.


11/Apr

Me and John have received another editing film from Ruguosier . He added a piano sound to the scenes and also the chirping of birds in scene 3. But I felt if we use the bird chirping sound, it sound very rushing and not connecting very well with the next scene. So I have asked Ruguosier to cut off the bird sound in scene 3. And also I felt scene 10's piano sound did not match with the ending part. So that reminds us to rethink how we will end the film.

I also wanted the clock ticking sound of scene 6 to change from a slower ticking to a faster ticking. Moreover, I wanted to try the whip wind sound for scene 10, which is our last scene. To end the whole film's opening dramatically. 

Also the scene which Olivia is running to a room to change her uniform, the door opening and closing sound is downloaded from online which Ruguosier found. He removed all the original sounds from the whole film and added the sound in each scene. 

But Ruguosier was saying, for scene 6, clock ticking sound. It will be abnormal and sound weird if we make the clock tick slower or faster. So we decided not to make the slower-to-faster clock ticking sound but just a normal clock ticking sound. 

Ruguosier has brought the whip wind sound from YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbt8Be8--J8), which I liked. And he tried to put the sound into the actual film, in scene 10. But it did not match the ending part. We decided not to use the whip-wind sound.

For the piano soundtrack that Ruguosier brought: YouTube(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym4c711LseE). License: "(c) Music Standard License Envato Audiojungle 4 October 2016 Indie film license v2.0"


12-13/Apr

Today, John and I brought the title. 

This is John's suggestion:

'Comes from the word apart—this title foreshadows that Grace and Olivia’s relationship will come to an end, and at the same time, it hinders some meaning that at some point, everyone would’ve experienced this kind of stubbornness and hapless situation from the word 'part'. ‘A part’ will represent a part where we kind of don’t want to face and just walk away from the current situation, and it potentially shows us how to overcome these kinds of situations through God (this will be shown throughout the film, with Grace being the representative with her friendship issues).

I personally prefer a part, not only because I suggested it, but because I wanted some implicitness in our message. which relates to God’s power and the overcoming of our struggles through life (if I got this correct, correct me if I’m wrong), since it may help audiences recognize that God is the key for themselves (learn morals?). I tried to focus on the struggles that happen throughout a lifetime in order to attract more people and make them relatable to our story, then connect them to our main message and the points I previously mentioned.'

This is what I have suggested:

'For me, I was thinking this: our actual film is going to be very Christianic, so I was thinking it will be great if we use 'His Way' as our main title so that the audience can intentionally think about what the title means while they watch the actual film. And get to our main point, God. I wanted to put God in the title, which is 'his'. Because God knows everything, and the friendship between Oivia and Grace is also in his plan. But I think if the audience sees the whole film, they will know we're talking about God in the title and as the main theme of our film.'

John was asking about: 'How did we show this in our opening?'

What I was saying was, 'So we were planning to show everything in the opening film right at first. We decided to not include much and put more info and stuff in the actual film to not spoil the others.' 

John reminded us about scene 10, the last scene, which is 'not only to jump to the next and tell the audiences obviously that the opening is done from there, but also as one of the foreshadowing of separation between our main two characters.

At first, we were thinking to put our subtitles on scene 3 only, but we decided to put them on scenes 2 and 3. Because we didn't have enough time to put them in one scene.

This is what we put : Seo Yun Jeon —> Esther Par —> Directed by John Yang —> Produced by John Yang, Ruguosier Belho & Seo Yun Jeon —> Sound & edits by Ruguosier Belho

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