Filming mistakes

Throughout the editing process of our coursework, we realised that we made quite a few continuity errors during our filming. These errors were noticeable and so to make our film opening look realistic had to be changed. To do this we had to do some reshoots of footage to correct our mistakes. In some cases we were able to alter the mistakes in editing. Others we chose to use part of the footage up to the mistake and then cut to another shot.

The main continuity mistake we realised we had made was during the interrogation scene. In one shot there is no water bottle on the table, just the lamp and the sound recording box. In the next shot, a water bottle appears in front of Alcione. Our first idea was to do a reshoot of this section of the film, we then found that there was an easier way to correct our mistake without having to get more footage. We decided that we would leave the bottle in the shot. We found that in Final Cut Pro 7 we could drag our footage around the viewing screen so that only the bits that we wanted to be seen were shown. To correct the mistake, we dragged the footage to make the shot focus more on Lucy. This meant that even if the bottle was on the table that it would not be able to be seen because of how the shot had been zoomed.



This image shows how we made the mistake of leaving the water bottle on the table whilst filming



This image shows how we realised the mistake we made when this shot had no water bottle on the table



This is what our shot looks like now we have corrected the image


As we were filming the corridor scene of our film opening, we struggled to get the footage we needed without getting the posters in the shot. As we filmed this in college, there are posters all over the walls with people work on them, these can not be taken down so we had to try and work our filming around them. We found that there was no way of editing these posters out on Final Cut Pro 7 so we had to do a reshoot of this scene. We decided that the only way that we would be able to keep the posters out of the shot was if we were to only show Lucy’s feet in the shot. We also decided that this would make our film opening better as it would add to the suspense of not seeing Lucy, which is what we intended on in the first place. During our reshoot we decided that we would extend the footage that we already had and instead of just having the scene in the corridor, we started the scene from the stairs. Lucy walks up the stairs and along the corridor where she then opens the door and steps into the original corridor where we only see her feet walking towards the interview room.




This image shows Lucy walking down the corridor with the posters clearly seen on the walls




This image shows how we changed this footage and extended it to Lucy walking up the stairs



This image shows Lucy walking along the corridor with a close up of her hand on the rail



This image shows how we corrected the mistake of our footage by now only showing Lucy’s feet, posters can still slightly be seen but as we did with the footage with the bottle, we are going to drag so the poster cant be seen.


Whilst filming our footage we found that we were getting our lines wrong quite a bit, this caused us to laugh half way through the filming and therefore these shots could not be used.




Lucy saying the wrong lines



Lewis laughing



Lucy laughing

When looking through our footage during editing, we found that some of the shots we had filmed well were actually rather blurred in places. This meant that we had to cut to different shots to avoid this blur from ruining the film. We found that the worst case of this blurring in the footage was when we were doing the scene from behind the glass. We found that we were getting blurred shots and also a slight shadow because of the dark rooms.



This is the interrogation scene that we decided was to blurred to use in our film.