Main Task 10: Post- Production

We started by capturing our footage and creating the logging rushes table. However instead of just capturing the shots in which we wanted to keep, we made the mistake of capturing all the footage we had. Once the logging rushes table was complete we then started the rest of the editing process. The first thing we did was we used the logging rushes table to help us pick the clips we wanted to keep and then we went through and put them in order. This then led to us creating our rough cut. We had a few problems when creating our rough cut as some of the shots we wanted to use were a bit shaky. Also the shot of JENNY choosing an outfit from the wardrobe to wear to work was a lot longer than we had thought.

 We added in the titles that we needed and cross dissolved them in and out. Also some of the shots we had were slightly darker than others as during the filming day, it got dark outside quite early. We chose the shots that we wanted and put them all together. A problem which we encountered was that in some of the shots it was clear that we was laughing behind the camera as you could hear it over the shot. We then added in some music. It was quite hard to find suitable music as we was looking for an upbeat, bubbly track to use, however some of the ones we came across were quite slow and not really suitale for a romantic comedy. We did then find two tracks which we thought may work well. We put the one track that we thought worked better onto our opening sequence. Another problem we had was that our rough cut was roughly 4 minutes long when it needed to be a lot shorter. Once the rough cut was complete we gathered a focus group together and played them the rough cut. We then asked them for some feedback on whether they enjoyed it, what parts they liked and disliked and why and how they thought it could be improved. We filmed their feedback so we could use it when creating the final sequence.


After listening to the focus groups feedback we went back through our rough cut. Some parts which we originally weren't too sure worked very well, the focus group picked up on. For example the shot of JENNY choosing her outfit we felt was too long, and this was one of the points that the focus group made, they said they felt it was a bit boring. So we took this shot out and it made the sequence flow a lot better. We also paused the text message and email, as in the rough cut they were quite hard to read as they weren't on the screen long enough. We also changed the colours and font styles of the titles so that they stood out longer and were a lot clearer to read. Another problem which was found was the shot of the fridge magnets spelling out one of the crew members name. We only had one shot of this so we decided it would be bext if we re-shot it. The re-shoot worked a lot better and it was a lot easier to read. We also changed the music. Firstly we decided to use two tracks instead of one, but then we felt it didnt really work as well so we changed the music and only used one track throughout the whole sequence. All the changes we made meant we had cut down on a lot time, our rough cut was around 4 minutes and our final sequence was just over 2 minutes. After making the appropriate changes, this then became our final opening sequence. We then gathered our focus group together again, showed them the final opening sequence and then filmed their response again.

Another problem we had was after uploading our final opening sequence onto YouTube, we found out that the music we had finally decided on was actually copyrighted. We had got the piece of music from an old uncopyrighted CD so the music may have been copyrighted during that time. We then decided that we would use the original piece of music that we used at the beginning of our rough cut.