Post-Production

Post-production is the part of the filmmaking process that is the least exciting. It involves sifting through thousands of clips for a few seconds, realising you've forgotten to shoot a shot and painstakingly editing the soundtrack so that it matches up to the film.
Although the film is already shot, there is obviously still quite a lot to do. The first, most obvious thing to do it to check through all the clips and upload to the computer. We had the choice of two editing softwares - final cut studio and adobe premiere, which are both industry standard. In the end we chose to use adobe premiere as windows computers deal with the higher quality footage better then macs. I am not very used to adobe premiere as I prefer final cut, but my colleague is very good at it, so he will be holding the mouse during the editing process.
The clips all looked fairly good. There were a lot of things that could have been done better, such as there were raindrops on the lens in some of the shots, however these shots weren't the most important, fortunately. We also missed out a few shots, such as a shot of the top of the National Gallery, which we would have superimposed a sniper onto, to make it more obvious that there was a sniper in the square. This isn't too much of a problem, however, as the story still runs fairly well without that shot. Other then that it seemed that we had all the shots we needed and a lot more! On the day we had shot about 1hr10mins of footage for just two minutes! This was obviously a good move, as it meant we had a huge choice of clips, and it meant that we missed nothing. Our editing choices seemed endless!
The trouble with this, however,was that the first edit we came up with was 3mins 52 secs long, which is much too long. To counter this we cut out the lines about the case that Jim was carrying, and this cut out a lot of time. We also cut out a lot of shots from the underground, which greatly reduced it, as before it took over a minute for Davidson to get into the square.
We created another draft which should be coming soon, but there is still a great deal to do.