Post-Production

We've approached the editing stage by uploading our footage onto the Macs. We were pretty content with the overall footage as we had done dozens of re-shoots for certain scenes. Most of it consists of the dolly shot of the opening credits as we had two idea's for presenting the title credits.

After a quick discussion, our final decision was to go for the back up idea for presenting the opening credits. We thought that this was more practical to place the cards down onto the table than use the dolly to shoot the cards on individual tables. Another advantage is that this technique is also a common convention used in comedies such as "Napoleon Dynamite", so we decided to incorporate it.

However, we did approach a few technical errors in uploading the footage as we decided to load all in one go. So unfortunately we didn't manage to get much editing done at all before half term.

After Half Term

We've begun editing our footage together and one of our main priorities was to find the credit titles and find a suitable font or style for our movie title "Outclassed". The best font we found was "Cracked" which gave us the fine impression that it was suitable for our teen comedy. It had the edgy and juvenile taste which would attract a younger audience. As well as that we included a orange yellowy font color which also stood out for us. We used this title as the very last shot with the penultimate shot fading to black so it would give the audience the indication the opening has finally closed. We also adjusted the soundtrack's volume to bring in the funny moments into play by having the volume at a passive level.

The other task was to import our production logo which we decided to keep unanimated. We also experimented with the negative filter effect to see how the colors would convert with our current choice. For the moment we'll keep that decision on hold whether we want the negative filter since all we want is to get the whole thing done for the rough cut.

Later on, we encountered a continuity error with the lighting with one of the name tags in the opening credits. The clip would instantly cut from a lighter to a darker background table because we had to cut and shoot again so we could move into position. An alternative to fix this was to just make it a still image so and put fades between each title. However we thought that this seemed inappropriate as this would ruin the production value for presenting the credits in a comedic fashion.

Re-capture

After looking through our opening, we found our shot with Ollie getting from his desk to be too long and cumbersome to watch. We remembered filming a brief shot of the classroom clock which we thought would be effective for an interval shot to alter the paste. But in the end we couldn't find the remaining footage on final cut so we decided to order our camera and film it again up close.

During the long shot of Ollie packing up. We managed to find one instance where he gazed up. We decided to use this to our advantage by placing the clock shot in between the long shot so we could keep the pace interesting to follow.

Soundtrack issues

We came across a mistake involving using the incorrect soundtrack as the credit title stated. We planned to use a soundtrack by Offspring with its artist name on the card tag. However when we tested a second soundtrack called "Want you bad", we unaware of the fact that we forgot to use the original soundtrack because both songs were by the same artist and we didn't write down the specific song on the card tag. Another problem we encountered was that none of us had an available copy of the first original soundtrack during the process of editing so we resorted to using the latter song.