The Prisoner Final Cut

This is out video of "The Prisoner", made by our group consisting of Craig Mullen, James Corker and Peter Chive's. At the beginning things were going quite well we got the shots we thought we wanted quickly shot and used a lot of different camera movements and upon reflection we were reasonably happy with the shots we took. However as we began to upload our shots onto the computers we definitely began to notice that there were many errors in shooting, there were parts that just cut off and left Major continuity errors and other parts of which we would have one shot and then not have another to make it seem realistic the best example of this was when, we had a shot of a door opening then thinking we had a shot of it closing we began to upload the shot but then found out we had no shot of the door closing and so this created a massive continuty error for our project and resulted in us having to reconsider how we were going to show the scene on our movie. The best part of our movie in my opinion was the use of non diegetic sound when james is walking across the field the use of the music track "Hunter" has a eriee effect on the scene creating an ominous atmosphere accurate for the effect we wanted to achieve. However we even had problems with this in the way that we had to try to time it perfectly which was difficult. Also the use of our camera angles in the interrogation scene whereby the low angle appeared to make me look more inferior to james. Overall we did a good job in filming the shots getting the correct shots and using the correct camera angles but simple mistakes let us down next time we will definately create a checklist in order to ensure that we get all the shots we need and leave out any continuty errors.

The Prisoner - Editing

Today we have uploaded all of our shots and edited them to the way we want them. Throughout the course of this project we have realised how important planning was, progressivly we have noticed that we were missing the most simple shots and creating continuity errors. These were just simple things such as doors opening and then not closing or footage of people walking through the doors of which orignally we thought we had. Also i have noticed that planning would have enabled our shots to look better as it would have allowed us to make sure that we were usding the correct camera angles and not just making it up on the spot. Currently we are finishing up editing the video by implementing music into the opening scene of out project. The main reason we have decided to do this was mainly to add more atmosphere to the shot but also because we filmed the opeing scenes outside it meant that diegetic sounds from the shot of which we did not want people to hear could be cut out such as the sound of the wind or breathing from the camera people. We noticed this alot when we listened to shots we realised just how many sounds the camera picked up. By implementing music into our scene it allows us to control what the audience hears in order to add and even higher effect to our project. The final part we need for our project is the manic laughter that features at the end of the clip, we are planning to use audacity to mix a different amount of different "manic laughs" together and create an overall better effect.

The Prisoner - Media Project

Today we managed to finish shooting and upload the shots onto the media server on the computer. We began to look at our shots and determine which ones were suitable for use.