Finished Product

After several weeks of work Myself and Paul have finally finished the two minute opening to our fiction film. In comparison to the storyboard I think that the finished product is a very accurate rendition, and is what I had visualised when I began drawing it.  We finished editing on the 17^th February, roughly three weeks after we finished filming. This obviously took a lot longer than the filming itself, which was completed in a day. This was enlightening and allowed me to fully understand and appreciate the film making process. In context to the opening itself I am very pleased with how much I have improved since the construction of our preliminary task (see first post) and the amount of varied camera shots and angles we used. This gave a real fluidity to the chase sequence, and allows the audience to follow the action with ease. However some limitations caused the overall quality of the piece to suffer. Limitations such as technology and time were the largest and most persistent. For example we discovered that with the technology we had it would be difficult to edit a muzzle flash every time the gun is fired. I did some research and discovered that it would be difficult to see this during the time of day we filmed. However we did sync the sound of the gunshot almost perfectly with the recoil of the weapon on screen. This particular aspect, match on action is something that was displayed well both in the preliminary task and our finished product. Overall I’m pleased with our final product and a lot of the aspects of it however there are some small parts of it that could be improved, particularly one of the shots at the beginning, depicting the antagonist which is a little blurry.