Becky: Small alterations make a big difference.

After the editing was finished, we decided to experiment with different effects to see if anything could be improved. We were able to do this as we had time to do so; it was very beneficial.

Here are the changes we made:

• Volume – We found out that adjusting the volume level draws attention to that certain section as it is louder than the other noises. We used this technique during some of the conversations to enhance the significant parts in the dialogue, e.g. the personal question about the secret relationship between the main character and a famous actor. Also we discovered that the variation in the volume increased the attention span of the audiences; kept them intrigued.

• Colour saturation – Our film is made up of 4 sections, 3 out of the 4 scenes have been changed to black and white as when you look through an old camera the image you see is in black and white, it only changes to colour when transferred onto a TV or computer. We decided to do this to make it look like untouched, raw footage, also it makes the audience feel like they are seeing what we are when we are filming. The period drama scene differs from the others as it is set in the ‘past’ also the dialogue and costumes are also set in Tutor times. From looking at older films it is clear that the colours are very strong and vibrant, this is from the technology they use to use; we recreated this affect by increasing the colour saturation to make the colours more intense. This also enhanced the difference between the old and new affect in our film.

• Added Noddy shot – Previously we only had one noddy shot of the interviewer, we felt that another one needed to be added into the interview sequence as it needed more reactions shots. Whilst doing this we discovered that we could lengthen the answer from the interviewee and overlap it with the interviewer’s reaction shot, this connected the shots together smoothly.

• Titles – More titles were added to increase the documentary feel we aimed to create. Also the font of the titles was changed from Harrington to Arial. Harrington would suit period drama styled films; this is why we previously used that font but as most of the scenes are in a documentary style we had to change it to a more appropriate font.

We are all satisfied with the final outcome; we feel that the changes have improved the film considerable.