Post production Part 1

 My group spent the whole first lesson back from the shoot on Friday, reviewing all the footage that we had filmed. Overall from what time we had filming we had a lot of material, reviewing all the shots we could tell we had more then enough shots to work with, there is always that one missing angle but we had other shots that made up for this.

There were only a handful of mistakes that I could see from our filming, this included the white balance and the lighting being off in some of the used shots. Furthermore, the sound in-between clips had a heavy and noticeable transitions which made the footage seem rough. 

The first thing my group did was name all the clips, this included naming all the bad shots we did, this is due to the fact we may need them if we don't have any other clips from the same angle. After this we began cutting the clips and putting them together on the timeline of the editing software. 

The early choice our group made editing was the picking of the first shot, originally started with an establishing shot of the environment and then straight into our main character walking his dog, but we decided to use a focus pull from a tree into the man walking instead. We ended up getting rid of the dog walking shot and then using it again later on in the editing, our group made sure to use the best shots of the dog and the shots with the best composition. 

Our adding of the focus pull was done a lot differently than in our original concept, we kept to the bases of using an establishing shot of the trees to start with but then we quickly changed up the idea completely, due to on the day not filming all the scenes on our shot list. This included not using a shot of the dog with fake blood under its chin, furthermore, we didn't end up using the shot of a zoom on the dogs face, this is mostly because it didn't fit the pace of our title sequence. 

We ended up firstly using the focus pull from the tree to the dog walker because this showed the audience that the man is being watched, and it also creates a more evil sense of feeling, it shows that something is going to go wrong, or something is going to happen to the dog walker. Additionally, we couldn't film the shot of the dog with blood on its chin because this would've been washed off or not look good due to the weather being terrible, furthermore we didn't end up having a shot before that which would give it context, so overall it would've just looked out of place and wouldn't have fitted our title sequence.