List of Tricky Shots/Edits/Effects

Tricky Shots -
There were many tricky shots when filming our film and when re-filming it to get the shots that were needed. One was an over the shoulder shot onto the laptop where the two sisters were looking to see what the hospital was called. It was difficult to focus the shot and keep it steady without shaking it about as we were unable to put the camera on a tripod, however by the end we had done it.


Another tricky shot was at the beginning where Lily is retrieving the letter from the draw as it was hard to make the shots continuous throughout as she kept moving her hands so it was difficult to get it in the right position however we used other shots in between such as close ups which helped our film be more fluent and continuous.



Difficult Editing -

It was hard to edit some shots together as they did not fit as certain things were not right e.g. the positioning of something, or the look of something so we often had to re-shoot scenes. The hardest part of editing was trying to match the colours in the graveyard shot as it was shot on different days and at different times so the background colour was different but with Final Cut Express we managed to change it to the same and it was more gloomier to portray the fact it is a sad moment in the film.

Another difficult part when editing was the sound as some shots were quieter than others so we had to edit the sound on certain shots to make it sound even. Putting the voiceover was difficult as it had to fit in a certain time scale and could not go over but we couldn't cut the voiceover, we made sure it fitted where we wanted and in the end it came out fine.


Effects -
Most effects we edited into our film were fade out/fade in or dissolve. These convey a passage of time and is the reason we used them. Finding where to put them and making sure it was small or big enough to fit the shot was a task as we didn't want it fading out at the wrong time.

At the very end of the film, we used an effect which freezes the picture on Katherine's face, this was effective as it shows the realization who killed their mother to the audience and it prepares them for the credits.