Jack and I found post production the hardest as it was all knew software that we were using. But as we got used to it, it became easier and easier. As we had lots of footage, it took a long time to get it all onto the system because it loads at normal time. Once the footage was on, we ran it through three or four times to give ourselves a good idea as to which part of the footage we would be using. We already had a fairly good idea as throughout the filming, we were continuously playing the footage back to make sure that it was good enough.
The editing was easy enough once we decide what parts of the footage to use. We played through the clip until we got to the part that we were cutting out, then we would pause it, split the clip and then delete the unneeded part. This did not take as long as I thought it was because we were already quite clear on what parts we wanted to use. We edited from the beginning so as we cut each part out, we could play the film through to see if we were happy with it.
Once we had done the cutting of the film and were happy enough with the continuity of the film, we could then focus on the sound part of the film. We decided to have Jacks footsteps getting louder as he walked down the corridor to create some tension. But we found we moved to the close up of the hard on the door, which the footsteps did not match up to the footage before which is something we would have to look into more during the real film. We also made the sound of Jack hitting the table a lot louder so that it would be more affective.
Overall I think as the task went on we learnt more and more which would be massively beneficial in the final film. We knew that we would have to plan our film more than we did for the preliminary. Also we knew that continuity was a lot bigger factor then we first thought. Also we now knew how the editing would work on the software so we could film so that it would match the editing used of the software.
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