Editing

We began editing our reshot footage today. It all looks good in black and white, and we managed to cut it together fairly quickly, but neatly; we used multiple cross-fade transitions to connote the passing of time. This works quite effectively as it is a convention of contemporary cinema in telling the passing of time. We also used fade-dissolves  to connote the change in a sequence in the scene. Hopefully, once we're done with the first edit, we can get some feedback on ways to improve. Also, once we've added the voice over and the looped soundtrack, it Will actually start to fall into place

Music - Skinny was born in a bath tub....

The music that Charlie and I chose to use for the piece is from this song 'Hello Skinny' - The Residents. The bit of music that we're using starts at 00.20 and ends at 00.50. Because of this, we have to loop the piece of music in order for it to last the full length of the film opening, which is around 02.00.

music

at the moment we're looking for music to go with the film opening. I'm studying music that is used for the opening's of old film noir's, such as the big sleep or the maltese falcon whereas charlie is looking at modern interpretations of this style. hopefully we can find something a bit in the middle that sounds right for the piece. we don't want the music to overpower the actual scene, so we have to find something that will be quiet enough not to be heard over anything. we don't want a music video.

Voiceover

Both Charlie and I decided, after hearing our dreadful American accents, that we could get someone from outside the group to be our voice actor, especially as the protagonist never speaks in the film opening. The use of non-diegetic sound only makes it possible for us to do this. After searching around for someone who could pull off a reasonable American accent, we settled on Joe Johnstone. We'll get set to recording the voiceover as quickly as possibly, so that we can break it down into parts and block these appropriately with the correct part of the visuals.

Principal photography and reshoots

with all principle photography done, we have to do reshoots now as there is a massive radiator in te way in a lot of the shots. how we didn't realise this i don't knoooooow...