post production part 1

 When it came to the editing part of our media sequence, as a group we went through all the rushes from the shoot day and put the shots we liked the most into a rough timeline to start structuring our work, when reviewing the footage it was fun to watch and see our idea on the screen but there were parts which we felt like could have been done a bit better and added a few more shots. 

Throughout reviewing the footage I did realise a few mistakes that our group did make when shooting the film. The main one i realised was some shots seemed to be quite shaky on the review, but that problem was mainly caused from not being on a completely level surface in the container. Another issue i realised when looking at the footage was a continuity error with the antennae on top of the radio which in some shots was up but then in some other ones was fallen over on its side.

When it came to starting to put the final cut together we made a separate timeline called cut 1 we separated this from the log so we could go back to the rough structure to see how we originally planned out the opening. we started with the footage with Ali turning on the radio player at the start of the scene then also started where to show Adam.

Early choices we made when starting to edit was that we wanted to show adam subtly without giving it up instantly, which is why we have the first shot of the sequence of Adams hands tied up in barbed wire. Another early choice we had was to have lots of close ups in the sequence as it is able to give a more dramatic sense especially when showing the weapons in our scene. We didn't change any of our concept idea at the start of the edit s everything seemed to flow quite nicely.

One choice that we made for the editing process was to show parts of the container all in close, as it helps show the titles and lets us focus on gory parts of the set which might tie in later in the film. The second choice we made was to use Jazz music as a diegetic sound effect in the sequence as it is contrapuntal to the scene.