Final Film Link

we finished our film this week, i am really proud of what we have put together. Our film tells the personal stories of our many contributors and their adoration for tattoos.

https://vimeo.com/205757533

Edit Plan / Sound Plan

Tom, our editor, made a well constructed edit plan before making the film so that he knew exactly what he was going to be doing when it come to him putting this film together. After sending this to me I looked over it and made a few notes so that I as the director would know what was going on. 

I came a long for the editing sessions to help in any way I could in the creative process, due to my lack of experience in editing I was only able to input what i thought might work well rather than telling tom what to do. Besides Tom worked extremely hard on the edit and was able to put together a great film by following his plan.

As for the sound plan Richard did it all by hand, marking up each interview we did and then transcribing it later so that when it came to editing all the sound we knew what everyone said and wouldn't have to flick through all the sounds to find the ones we liked.

Production Stills

Before shooting we would allocate half an hour to setting up all the equipment and making sure all the lighting was positioned to make the image as good as it could be. Due to the fact most of our shots will be composed in the same way it is important that they all look as good as possible.

The shots of all the artwork were a bit more complicated as each one varied in size and detail, this made it difficult to maintain a single standard of shots or maintain and identical lighting technique, this was due to the paper and how it would bounce of the white often giving the camera flair. Hannah decided to use a focus pulling technique to draw the eye to particular parts of the drawing and dim some of the lighting to allow for a lot of the work to be displayed within the frame but only some of it being in focus.

Review After Tutorial

During our first tutorial we put a rough edit together. For this edit Tom put a number of clips together in avid and Richard put a separate audio edit on pro tools to show Debbie. We realised later that this was a mistake as having to play audio and video separately didn't convey our intentions as planned and didn't convey our story very well. After showing Debbie our rough cut she stated that it was important for us to focus on what we wanted our story to be and what we wanted the spectator to take from this film. do we want to educate, do we want to empathise or do we want something different completely.

The tutorial was extremely helpful as we got to discuss the options we had in terms of overlaying the sound and if we would require a score of some kind to go over the film to ad a layer of depth to the sound, if we needed more interview audio. We came together as a group and decided that we would need a few more interview pieces and we would need to find some sort of sound to over lay the film to ad some depth. Debbie agreed that our shots were well done and ascetically pleasing, this was extremely important due to the fact our shots didn't range in type and were consistent throughout so we had to make sure that they looked good. This feedback really helped in forming our final film and also gave us a clear vision as to how to finish it.