Post-Production

Firstly, when we encompassed our shots together, we as the audience did not feel it was right. After reflecting upon this we knew that match on action was missing making our film seem like a series of shots containing no sense of flow that is necessary in real time. This greatly affected the quality of our film and we knew this was a real problem because we did not have enough shots for match on action in the beginning of the film.  To overcome this we added titles in the places that did not flow into the next shot and the cuts worked really well and proved successful in making the pace slower in areas where we wanted to establish the character through close-ups (e.g.her writing in her diary).

Close ups to create a more personal feel to the audience...

Secondly, a major problem we faced was with the voice over, the voice over which did not match the visuals digitally of our film. Instead of adding depth and meaning to the characters actions it gave our film more of an amateur feel. This was extremely frustrating for us; we recorded the voice over twice in an attempt to fix this. However, after discussing this problem we knew we had to think creatively and problem solve like editors in the industry. We decided to communicate the messages we wanted from the voice over, visually. After adding subtitles- the subtitles appeared like a visual diary as we held a tableau in significant moments.
Through our editing skills we achieved match on action and communicated what we wanted the audience to know visually establishing the beginning of our narrative.

Visually presenting our voice over...