Updates

Quick progress update on what's been occurring. So recently there has been a great focus on the editing stage, despite not all the filming been done.  Now when I say that, that doesn’t exactly mean panic, the only bits that haven’t been done are the band shots, the big and constant issue of this project. Me and Chloe managed to get all the chase shots done just fine because there was less issues to factor in with just the two of us filming it. The band shots on the other hand has had numerous issues which I admit may have overlooked. Firstly issues getting the actors, this has been the main annoyance. At times I was missing half my band with no time to obtain replacements, and then there were times when they couldn’t do it because of other commitments, and finally there were times when they just weren’t in sixth form altogether from being ill or away. I did however try to find replacements some days but a lot of the time it was too short notice for those people having already made prior arrangements, so that was the main issue. The other issue was being able to get one of the places to film in, that being either the hall or the drama room at my sixth form. These two places different places are only free at most one or two nights out of the school week, with the drama room being used for extracurricular activities such as drama club after school some nights and the hall being used for different music rehearsals and clubs, the hall has become even more used on a night for these rehearsals due to the schools winter concert coming up, with the hall eventually becoming unusable during the week of the concert as the hall will to decorated and set up for the concert and me and Chloe wouldn’t be allowed to move or change the setting to film. Now obviously I could of filmed on a night when they weren’t being occupied but I’ve just had the worse luck as my actors have always either been off, away, ill or busy on these days when the rooms were available, so me and Chloe have just had terrible luck, not to mention me and Chloe have been busy on some of these days with things such as our job s and I was ill for a few days one week, so wasn’t in. But despite not having all the footage needed we started editing anyway, bet this than sat twiddling our thumbs doing nothing.  Plus it gives us a great head start with the edit and allow us to in a way keep up with the schedule so we aren’t completely off track. Currently I have been editing all the footage and have shortened the chase footage and cut out all the bad bits and pieces and have been watching it over so it looks good and there is no continuity, and so far nothing has been noticed which is good. As for the band footage, at the moment we are just using the images of the band from the story board and dropping them into the time line so we have an understanding on what it will look like and what we need to do. So there is still a lot left  to do and things are a little stressful  but I’m not completely panicking yet.