Construction

Below is out final Product

This is a programme that is on the macs that we have used to edit our piece and it is called Garage Band. We first wanted to create our own sound track for the piece to make it more personal, but after trying this using a voice recorder, the quality was not good enough and didn't sound how we wanted it to be. So, we decided to use Garage Band. We chose from the wide range of already made loops of sound that ranged from effects to guitars and so on, and after finding the ones that fitted well within our piece and sounded like what we wanted, we shared them with i-tunes and opened them up within i-movie. I think that using this has helped a lot by the fact that it has both saved time, and made sure that there is no unwanted sound that could be heard coming through. Another thing this helped us with was to create sounds that we could not by the fact that it has samples within it, for example, where we have the "sports" stereotype, we added a sample of a tennis serve to emhpisize on the sound, which worked very well. I am very pleased with the sound so far, especially the ending as it fits very well and makes the piece flow from shot to shot also.

Here are three "outtakes" of our piece. The first is of the shot where we wanted a panning shot around the conversation between both the main character (Libby) and the posh, stuck up character (Me) As it was a conversation scene, we had to stay with the 180 degree rule. But at this point we wanted to break this and go onto the over side of the conversation,  so that we had a wide range of shots within the piece. We had to do this by free hand as we had no other way of doing so, and as can be seen, it is very unsteady and not smooth enough, even if we tried to edit it to be smooth it still would not look good. So you decided not to us this shot within our piece.

The nest if of the shot which would have been the end shot of the piece. This shot is right after the shot behind the bench where only the feet can be seen. We thought that if we included this shot into our piece, it would make our look finished. but as in it was a short film that finished with that shot, not an opening to a film; so because of this we decided against using this shot within our piece so that it looks more like the end of an opening, not an end to a short film. We also thought that it would be more of a cliffhanger and something that would make the audience want to watch more, to find out who was on that bench, instead of actually finding out.  

The last is of the establishing shot of the piece where there is the long zoom out on the door and then we see the "ex" character holding flowers and the main female character slams the door in her face. We had to do this many times as there was a constricted space and sometimes the main character took up the majority of the shot so that the ex could not be seen clearly. When we finally uploaded the shot we wanted into our piece, it still did  not look quite right, so the decided to look at the effects we could add to it and we tried out what the flipped effect would look like. Surprisingly, the flipped shot made the ex character in the centre of the rule of thirds and a lot more clearer also, so we decided to keep with this in comparison to the none flipped shot.