Important Decisions Made By SCAR Productions

As a group, after reading our rough cut feedback, we have decided that due to the poor quality and missing scenes in our film, we are going to re-film our entire film. We feel that this is the best option in order to gain better marks and achieve our full potential.

We will need to re-think our idea a little as it doesn't really make sense as a whole. To overcome this issue we have decided to remove the second male, who was supposed to be aborted and conceived via the rape. We have removed this character because he looked like he wasn't meant to be there, we wanted our film to make sense, and also felt that this character didn't add much to the plot.

We have also removed the scene on the park and the nursery rhyme. We have decided to take this out as it also didn't make sense and confused the audience who we asked to watch our film and give further feedback. Although we felt that on a symbolic level this scene alluded to the sense on innocence and it being taken away, we felt the risk of confusing our viewers by including it was far greater than the symbolic benefits of including it.

We will also be improving our titles as we feel that they do not tell the viewer enough about our film before it begins. We also think that the effect on them means they take alot of time to develop and this means that we would have to hold the text for longer, whereas the titles we have looked at are short, snappy and to the point.

These are all of the changes we have come up with so far regarding our final film. Any others we decide on will be in the posts that are to follow.

To Sin No More; Rough Cut Feedback

Below, I have embedded a copy of our feedback from our rough cut, which can also be found on our school's A2 Media blog. We know that we have alot of work to do on our film, and this document contains some useful and constructive criticisms and comments for us to work on. This will make our process of re-thinking and planning alot easier.

To Sin No More Rough Cut Feedback

To Sin No More; First Draft

Creating Our Ident

I personally was not the member of our group who created the ident for our production company, Sam did this for the group. We did however, all discuss what kind of thing we would like. As we are called SCAR, we wanted something which slashed across the screen, we think that Sam has done a great job with creating the ident and he made the tutorial I have embedded below, accessible to all of us so that we can at least be aware of how the ident was put together. Although it is a different idea to what we have as our ident, I believe it was still put together in the same way, via the same or as similar process.

Editing Process - Part #1

When I came to edit our footage on 9th Feb, a week after our second day of filming, I found that the scenes in the bedroom we had filmed weren't on the tape, so due to technical error we didn't have those to work with. When I looked at the rest of the scenes we shot, I was equally disappointed, as I knew that we would have to re-shoot everything that we had filmed. There were masses of continuity errors which just aren't acceptable for the high quality of work I know we can produce.

However, the footage that Sam and I filmed had been edited the week after we shot it and all of this was edited nicely and we feel it looks good.

I have edited the footage shot on the 2nd of Feb the best that I can, it is just waiting to be uploaded as a rough cut for out film. When I upload it to my blog I will make a list of all of the things that I am unhappy with and make sure that these issues are addressed in the next shoot.

Filming Day #2 - 2nd February 2012

Present at this shoot were, Sam, Rob, Adele and myself. We all managed to arrange some time where we could film together. Also present were Erica and Adam who were acting for us on this day. We shot these scenes at Sam's house and had gathered some of the props we needed. One of the things I would have done differently for this shoot would have been to have organised the group better as we didn't have all of the props we needed and this meant that we had to work around that. This was probably because we tried so hard to find a day where we could all film that we forgot to organise the things that would make it run smoothly.

On this day we shot all of the scenes before the flashback, however when we left location we realised we forgot to film the scenes where Anthony brings his mother out of the flashback. This once again was down to a lack of organisation and because we didn't have a storyboard with us. We managed to film the scenes where Sam is looking through her pregnancy/baby memorabilia and although we did this quickly as we were running out of time, these scenes did look good and we managed to get it from a few different angles in order to be able to include some nice edits and add interest to what was happening onscreen.

Overall, this shoot didn't go as well as I'd hoped it would and although I have not yet seen the footage, I suggest some more shooting will be necessary.