Post-Production: Rough Edit

To get a first glimpse of how all of our clips looked edited together, we quickly came up with a first rough edit of our film opening. However, whilst doing this, we noticed flaws that meant we either had to cut clips out or re-film. This became another problem as we only had 2 minutes and 39 seconds of raw footage. Our film opening is supposed to be 2 minutes long and if we were to cut the clips out that we found problems in, we wouldn't have the required amount of footage needed. The pictures below show the probelms we found whilst editing our footage:

The first problem we found was that Holeigh's bag was visible in the background when the 3 friends discover the phone. This was a problem because the setting was supposed to be desolate and a bag wasn't one of the intended props and wouldn't make sense to the audience if it was left in the background.

Another problem was that in the shot where the friends pick up the phone, Holeigh's feet were left in the frame, adding an extra character into the openign, which would confuse the audience and look out of place.

 In numerous amounts of clips, without realising, we had left the tripod in the background. This was probably the worst problem because it is visible in so many clips and doesn't fit in with the desolate setting that was intended.

Another problem we discovered whilst editing, was that the camera was set on auto-exposure. Therefore the camera would change lighting from dark to light and doesn't look effective enough in certain aspects of the opening. 

Here is what our rough edit looks like in Final Cut: