Wednesday, 5 December 2007

End Summary

The film has been completed successfully and the group wish to thank:

  • The actors for their time
  • Stafford prison, Cafe Nero, and Staffordhsire University for allowing us to film
Vision Media Productions Team
Left to right: Yoann Desmoyers Davis, Philip Swart, Robert Unwin, Kevin Philemon

Good Points
Overall the film was successful and showed the story we wanted to tell. The pre-production stages were the toughest: finding locations, actors and readying a script but we felt the film has done justice. The political aspect of it we felt we had succeeded in explaining and the discrimination and corruption of today are still strong unfortunately.

Bad Points
The only realistic bad points about the experience was the time constraints that were involved to get the production together. Perhaps better planning could ave avoided this but none the less have succeeded and learnt new things. Difficulties during filming were few and we suffered no technical failures. Lighting was the only minor difficulty as filming outside the sun set really quickly and we had to work fast.

Final Film

Here is the final cut of the film, the flashback/back story has been saturated and the colour lowered to create a brown tinted image. The first and last scenes are in full colour to show that it is in the present day. This was inspired by the film American History X


The audio has also been changed, during the recording of audio it was discovered that the actor said the wrong surname for Thomas during the court hearing and was pronounced Dudley instead of Selman, this has been removed and the audio shortened.


Edit with Sound

This is another draft of the film however the audio has been mixed and new sound effects added




Audio added in this edit include:

  • Music for the beginning, altered for both the pub and the bedroom.
  • Ringtone shortened for more frequent rings
  • Frequency changed for the vocals during the argument between John and Sarah.
  • Music added to the cafe scene at the end of the film.

Sunday, 2 December 2007

Draft Edit

This is the first rough draft of the film, the audio has yet to be mixed and the footage needs to be colour corrected