Friday 13th March

On Friday we began editing the footage we had, the majority of it fitted together well. However there were some problems with the continuity of some scenes, we improved this by cropping the scenes so that they fitted together better. We also solved the problem i mentioned in an earlier post where the fence was visible in the background by cropping the size of the shot down and deleting the part where she leaves through the door so that you only see her pick up the bag and leave the shot. We also came across some problems with the scene involving the "popular" girl's friends as a car was driving past when we filmed, making the dialogue more difficult to understand. So we re-shot these scenes, however one of the characters who was in one of the original shots that needed re-filming was not available so we had to re-think the shot. By changing camera angle we did not need her to be in the small part of the scene. After adding in the new scenes the continuity of the scene worked a lot better. We also added a fade in from black to the beginning of the film with the film title "Best Enemies". We decided to use font and text colour to reflect the film's narrative, putting "best" in pink girly handwriting and "enemies" in a sinister bold red font. The contrast of these two fonts and colours reflects the conflict between the two girls stereotypical girly friendship and the ruthlessness of the actions that take place later in the film. I think the lesson was very productive and that we managed to create a very good 2 minute introduction to our film. In Monday's lesson we will be sorting out any final editing and finding a song that will suit the introduction.