Jesse Lapworth reflects on the production process of their film. They began with a tracking shot on a bike to set the countryside tone. Still photos were used, including a dog photo taken over several days and a Snapchat-style cake photo to maintain realism. An audio graph was created in After Effects to visualize a phone call and keep the viewer engaged. Finally, an interview subject's identity was concealed by blurring the image and distorting the audio in Premiere Pro.

1. Production Reflection
Jesse Lapworth

2. Process
I really wanted a tracking shot for
the opening shot of my film to
keep in tone with the genre and
keep with the countryside theme.
To do this I decided to head out
on my bike and film it whilst
riding.
This I feel worked well and
achieved what I wanted. I then
added the start credits with the
credits tool in Adobe Premiere
Pro. Again I tried to keep a
professional feel and I feel it
works well.

3. Process
I used a number of still photos for the
piece. This was again a genre convention
and helped me a lot in my piece. The
picture of the dog is just fairly simple, I
took a number of photos over a few days
and felt this one worked best for my
piece. I used the cameras custom settings
to make sure that it took good close-ups
as well as using manual focus for the best
photo possible.
Then photo of the cake is slightly
different. I went for making the image
look like a snapchat photo as this would
realistically be how a teenager may
document the event and was the best
way for me to have a photo of the scene
without breaking emersion and the story.
The way I did this was actually to take a
photo with an IPhone on the Snapchat
app. I tried photos with the camera but
felt like this photo works best for my piece
and people will instantly know what is
trying to be communicating.

4. Process
So this is a shot of a Phone call, with
this I wanted to keep the viewer
interested visually as well as the
audio. To do this I went in to Adobe
After Effects and made the Audio
graph. I think this again works well
for the piece and is a nice effect that
is synced with the audio nicely. It
again keeps a professional feel. I
then also altered the audio clip
adding interference to one side of
the phone call to make it sound like
it was actually a recorded phone call
when in fact I recorded it using my
computer. I then added subtitles
over the parts of the clips with the
distortion so that everything in the
clip is understood.

5. Process
In this scene I was hiding the identity
of the actor in it. To do this I just filmed
a sit down interview like the rest in my
piece. But I then blurred the image
using Premiere Pro and again used the
audio distortion tool to hide her real
voice too. To blur the image I used the
image distortion from Premiere Pro.