THE VISITOR : FIRST AND FINAL CUTS

Before our First Cut Video, we had record,convert, and put all the footage we had on Final Cut Pro. We began to edit the footage we had and soon realised that it lacked a lot of detailed shots that needed to be acquired such as close up shots of  the hands, nails, and dress. After sitting down with our teacher we eventually developed a detailed shot list and storyboard on what we needed to go and re-shoot. This process was both irritating  and understandable as well all knew that we needed the re-shoot in order to accomplish our desired film.

FIRST CUT

              

The first cut was not very good the cuts we too quick, there wasn't enough close up shots, and it lacked a narrative which made it seem more like a trailer than a film opening. In my opinion, the 'saving grace' of our opening was the titles they worked well with the style and genre that we were going for with the film. Once we had finished our first edit, we realised that we needed to go out and film more shots because of the constant repetition of certain close-ups and the blank spaces between each title. 

When we had done the second unit shoot, we tried to film every appropriate body part that didn't show too much of 'The Visitor'. We had a problem on our second unit shoot as our second location (the little barn) we filmed at had been fenced up and therefore no-one could enter the premise. This meant that we could not get any pick-up shots at that location. Our teacher also pointed out to us that there was no sense of flow from the first to second location after repeated discussion on how to improve this, we came up with a few solutions;

1- We wrote another shot list and storyboard

2- We negotiated a time to book the camera kit in order to film      the travel shots 

3- We re-shot a few more items of not only 'The Visitor' but also    the surrounding to add setting ( another aspcet our evaluation    of the first cut showed)to the 2 minute clip.

4- We recorded our voice over which would help the audience          understand what had happened to our protagonist.

We then edited this all together and ran it through the colour software.Which led us to the completion of our final piece

FINAL CUT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-z9Kudd9wA