I have finished my film, and i am ecstatic with the outcome, in the short time i have had to make my movie i feel i have learnt so very much. I believe my film will be successful for my target audience because of the vast amount of techniques i have included. There are many effects such as fading in and out of a shot, black and white shots and lengthening a shot for a lasting effect and many other techniques i used. Whilst editing my shots i found some problems that i had to edit out. For example, when the actor was coming down the stairs followed by a tracking shot, the camera jolted, me and my co-worker had to cut this part of the film out. We was a bit worried the scenes would not match up but in the end we were very impressed with the way it connected. It was an amazing experience, being able to incorporate members of my family into my movie and for them to play a different part, to the roles they play throughout my life in reality.
The topic of the movie was very close to my heart, simply for the reason the physical scarring seen throughout my film was real, however not obtained through physical abuse. Part of what made the movie clever was that the scarring didn't actually belong to the bride, it belonged to my brother, the groom. On filming the scene of the bride and then leading down to the scar we had to place my brother behind her, but keep his face and body out of eye shot. To imitate the scarred arm as the brides arm, i had to tuck the brides arm behind her back and my brothers arm underneath the brides elbow. This was very difficult as my brothers arm looked too long for the brides small frame, so i had to use clever filming to make the scene appear convincing. It was important this shot worked as my whole story was based around abuse.
After editing i began to add music and sounds into my movie, i had huge problems when adding in the music. I gave MobyGratis three weeks to get back to me about the music i had requested but they never sent a reply. I then began to search for music on free play, but once i had chosen my music, there were problems with the software which meant i could not add the music onto my film. I tried several techniques such as saving the songs and trying to add them through searching through my files, dragging the songs onto the filming software, and locating the tunes from Itunes but nothing seemed to work. I managed to locate some of the songs through Itunes, but Itunes did not accept all of the songs, i then had to find alternative means through using one song that was already in Itunes, as i couldn't allocate the song i originally wanted. I and my co-worker then edited this song through taking snippets and placing certain parts together, this overall gave the movie a tense and intended feel, i was more happy with the unplanned outcome then i would have been with the song i first wanted.
Overall i am very happy with my movie and feel there are no improvements i could have made. The faults i found helped to make a stronger movie overall, finding ways around the faults helped me to improve in the techniques i learnt and how i could use these techniques to the best of my ability, to make my movie impressionable.
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