Screen shot 1:This first screen shot is of scene 11. Due to on this day of filming, the microphone kept cutting out and resulted in having no sound on occasional parts of scenes. With this scene, Leon and the mother are arguing in the kitchen as we have the visual of Lily coming down the stairs and listening. Luckily, we had sound for this scene, however after Adobe Premiere Pro crashed, the sound for this scene disappeared.
After we searched for the piece of sound and were unable to find it, we resorted to re-adding the sound clip, editing the levels so they fitted appropriately with the scenes and shots both before and after.
We also found that we had a similar with scene 14. Here we lost the picture rather than the audio. We checked to see if we had 'hidden' that layer, however this was not the case. So similarly to above, we re-added both the sound and picture to make sure they were still in sync with each other.
Screen shot 2:With this screen shot, it was the simple decision of when and where it was appropriate to place cross dissolves between shots. Collectively we felt that we needed longer and slower cross dissolves between the changes in days, and shorter more abrupt cross dissolves when it is only a change within a few seconds, minutes or hours.
The day changes were also made longer by making a gap between the two scenes, leaving a short period of black screen.
Screen shot 3:This screen shot is one of the first decisions we made as a group when it came to editing. For scene 2 we filmed and extra shot to add emphasis to what Leon is picking up. Although it is a jump cut, we felt it added to the story and could be considered as one of our stylistic attributes.
When editing the shots in this scene together, we cut the shot of Lily watching Leon pick up his stuff into two and placed this in the middle. However, when doing this we had to make sure Leon's hand was in the right place moving from one shot, to another of him picking up his stuff.
This shot was also over-layered with drum and bass music coming loudly from his bedroom. This sound was filmed separately so it could be singularly controlled. Finding the correct levels so it sounded realistic proved as a challenge due to making it suddenly stop as if Leon had switched off his music before heading off on his way out. We also made sure the music levels varied for each day. For example, in scene 12 when Lily walks past her brother's closed door, we made sure the music sounded more dull and muted by the door.
Another example with the drum and bass music was scene 5 when Leon is playing xbox and slams the door in Lily's face. Here we decided upon lowering the music around the speech and door slamming to make sure it did not take away the emphasis of the aggression presented.
Screen shot 4:After capturing all our clips, we discovered that a great deal of our clips suffered from high levels of interference. So as a group we went through sound effects including: De-Esser, De-Hummer, De-Crackler and De-Noiser. We decided that De-esser and De-hummer had no effect on the interference levels so we stuck to using just De-crackler and De-noiser. The settings we used for both included:
De-crackler:
- Reduction 100%
- Threshold 0%
De-noiser:
- Threshold 0%
- Reduction 20db
- Offset 10db
We also found out that by double layering these effects you were able to lower extreme levels of interference greatly. The shots with major interference included 3.2, 4.1, 8.2 and the whole of scenes 9 and 10.
The scene visible in this screen shot is scene 13, which was one of our main scenes in our film. Lily is found muting the TV to listen to the argument happening between her mother and brother. We overlapped the sound of these shots with the argument between Leon and the mother to find that the argument was too short for the scene. We decided to try and take the 'just fucking leave it' from a previous argument and place it on the end, resulting in making it longer. However after attempting this, we felt that Leon's attitude was not in the context of this argument and took it back out. The argument sound was also double layered so you were able to hear what was being said.
Screen shot 5:This screen shot is of scene 4, which suffered a few issues down the line. The main issue was that it would not play through and kept jolting, even after rendering. This was resolved by re-adding the scene's shots onto the timeline. Although we had resolved the issue of the scene not playing, we had to readjust all of our continuity. How smooth and flowing the movement of Lily picking up and using her books was commented on in our audience feedback of our rough cut and we wanted it to be the same again. We also picked up on the feedback of this scene being two slow so we cut out the first shot, and the last shot of the previous scene to increase the pace.
Once the visual was sorted for this scene, we realised that the sound of the television in the background did not match continuity. We resolved this by choosing the best TV sound out of all the shots in this scene and extended it's length so it took over the whole scene. We were lucky that in this scene there was no major sound made by Lily.
Screen shot 6:This screen shot is of scene 10. This scene suffered greatly due to the microphone not working and losing large amounts of sound. Sound was a necessity in this scene as it contains a great deal of dialogue. This meant that we had to work around which shots had sound, taking out any that didn't. This included our main shot reverse shot, and the extreme close up of Leon's face, which we felt added great emphasis and the make up of the bruised eye adds to the realism.
Continuity was also an issue with this scene as we had to make sure there hands and Leon's hood was in the right place when lines were being said. However the scene was cut down with shots removed and shorten to only contain the vital shots. An example of this was where the mother is closing the dishwasher. We cut this out as it did not add anything to the story and the kitchen is not big enough to see what she is doing fully unless it's a very high-angled shot.
Screen shot 7:This screen shot is of the creation of the titles for the beginning of the sequence. As a group we had to decided what was necessary to have as titles at the beginning and what could be left until the end credits. For the beginning we decided to have our production team name, the two main actors names and the title of the film 'My Brother Leon'.
We decided to keep both the opening titles and ending credits as simple as possible, using plain white font on a black background. Our main font used throughout was Trajan Pro, as it matched what was used on my postcards. I felt this font was also appropriately used as it quite sharp.
When creating the opening titles we left the film to play until just before the fade up to scene 4, until we put on the title 'My Brother Leon'. As a group we felt that this was more conventional of films and took good use of a black fade out. The transitions between each of the credits was also just a simple cross dissolve. We decided on this against the generic 'roll' of credits up the screen because it fitted more suitably with the pace of the ending music.
Screen shot 8:This final screen shot is presenting how the end credits were created. As we have done throughout our project, we started by setting our sound levels with the bars and tone and the speakers, making sure it was at an audible level.
We then decided that the credits will flow more appropriately if the fade up's and fade down's were placed on time with the beats in the piece of music. So before creating the visuals for the credits, we went through the soundtrack and placed markers on every beat until about a minute in - this made it easier to line up the titles with the marker on the music. The final credit also fades out slower than the rest, ending on what we all considered to be an appropriate place on the track.
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