Portrait of place - Finished...Finally

Woop!
We've finished and burned our 3 minute film :D
So glad that's done..

The more we watch it, the more we see huge errors in it, but we think that its probably as good as we're going to get it with the footage we have.
Theres a few jumpy cuts (due to the windy weather) and the POV shots are slightly different colours to the rest (again due to the changing weather conditions between the two shooting days) but we've tweaked (or rather Jess has tweaked) as much as we possibly can without going insane.

Hopefully we'll get some decent marks for it...

Portrait of Place Editing

So we've been editing today. Its been ages since i last did any editing, Id forgotten how long it takes. It doesnt take that long to get the bulk of it done (we cut 30 minutes of rushes down to just over 3 minutes in only a couple of hours) but it takes soooo long to do the final touches! We must've spent at least 6 or 7 hours playing about with the rest of it.

Here's a few screenshots of our edit, incase you're interested..

On the above picture, the left-hand clip is a POV shot from our original shoot on Thurs 27th Oct, the right-hand clip is our second day of shooting (on the following wednesday), the weather on the first day was pretty wet and dark whereas the wednesday shoot was much sunnier and brighter, getting the two shots to match in colour (or at least get close to matching) took a lot of effort.

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By the end of the shoot, the wind picked up and was blowing the grass and bushes about (as well as Jess' hair!) which meant when we tried to edit together the two shots above, theres a noticable little jump, we spent quite a while trying to fix it, its very much improved from how it was in the rough edit but unfortunately you notice it.

And finally:
Look who we happened to see while shooting on our second day! He even crouched down on the ground to get out of shot for us at one point..

Jarvis Cocker

Im definately feeling my age now, almost everyone I excitedly mentioned this to, however, didnt have a clue who I was talking about (!) Perhaps its not such a big thing but it made my day anyway..

Domestic

Domestic by Suzi Ewing (2002)

Barry has been made redundant but is too cowardly to tell his wife, in order to keep himself occupied during the day he breaks into peoples homes and tidies them, this gives him a sense of purpose and strength to confront his own situation. He inadvertantly fixes a couples struggling relationship.
I like how his cowardice is highlighted simply with a falling pillow feather in the first scene.
The cheerful music plays whenever Barry has a sense of purpose, it cuts off he's filled with fear at the couple returning and starts back up again just before he gets home.
I like that theres very little dialogue needed in the film and that much of the story is told visually.
I also llove the quirkiness of it all.