During a film production project, Charlotte Bracken completed various roles and documentation including production logs, photos, schedules, and meeting records. She created a rough cut of the film and analyzed ways to improve the edit. Based on this feedback, she added more footage, transitions, and sound effects to make the film creepier. While the video quality was good, some audio was low quality. Through this project, Charlotte learned skills in Adobe Premiere and After Effects, but feels she needs more knowledge of Premiere to add more transitions and improve overall quality.

1. Charlotte Bracken
During this project I have done many things such as production roles, production logs, photographic
document, daily production schedules, and production meeting records, practice edits of piecing
clips together to create a short film and also the rough edit of my short film with an analysis to
explain what is going to be done or could be done to improve the actual edit. All of these
assignments which have been completed and posted onto my blog have help with the final edit of
my short film.
By producing a production role list on Microsoft Word, the group I was in was then able to decide
what each individual will do so that we wasn’t organised and we were rushing about and getting in
each other’s way. Having a clear indication on what each individual had to make the job of creating a
short film so much easier to get done. As we started to get into the project, we then started to
record all the production meetings we had throughout the course which at the time wasn’t many as
we all knew what we had to do so we got right on with the task at hand. During each day we
recorded exactly what we did throughout the day on a production log which has each date and a
brief summary of what we did. Making a photographic document to show what we did and evidence
the work actually being done by us was easy for the fact we already had the camera in which we was
using so presenting the work onto the blog through PowerPoint was also easy.
After writing about the rough edit and writing about what could be added to improve the edit, I have
took that into consideration and added the extra footage we recorded and more transitions and
edited certain clips to make it more ghostly as such to give a better effect of the film. Adding sound
effects which are relevant to the short film itself, gives it more of an edge which is in that genre and
hopefully makes it that little more uneasy for the viewer’s whilst watching it. For example, I added a
sound effect of a little girl saying the character’s name, this is at 0:35-0.37on the YouTube upload. I
added another sound effect which said ‘Tabitha come play’ at the time 1:50-1:56. Another sound
effect which we had which we recorded ourselves is the scream near the end at 5:14-5:17. Overall I
think these sound effects are vital and improve my final edit a little bit more than I thought it would.
It now seems creepier as it is the girl saying the words and the scream at the end is jumpy which the
aim of the short video is.
The technical quality of the final edit is a good quality. As we filmed it in HD, the edit itself is in
better quality than it would be if we filmed it in the standard quality and plays on YouTube in high
quality which is a version which more people are becoming use to which is one reason why we put it
in HD so more chance of people watching it. In my own edit, I don’t seem to have used many editing
techniques because of the genre, I found out hard to find the right techniques which would go
perfect with the short film. I have used techniques which made the sound effects sound as if they
are echoing and more ghostly which I thought personally was a strength to the sound effect. It helps
with reinforcing the genre. There are not many digital effects apart from a few transitions which are
used to try and patch up some of the editing. As the individual recorded footage got edited together,
some of them didn’t piece together as well as others so in order to fix that problem, some of the
clips where stretched and pieced up to go perfectly yet not stretching the video too much to try and
keep its original quality of the footage so it looks like it runs 100% smooth. As editing each individual
clip and synchronizing the audio clips to the footage, I think that went well and is perfect over all.
Some of the actual recordings seem rather quiet and low and in my personal opinion, that’s a
weakness to the short film. The main example of this is seen on the YouTube video from 0:46-0:52,
this shows the weakness that the short film itself has.

2. Charlotte Bracken
During this task that I have been assigned, I have acquired many skills which most have been
through the works of Adobe Shop Premier. Using Adobe Shop Premier, I have learnt how to properly
synchronize recorded footage and audio clips together to perfect timing and also how to add effects
and transitions to the sequence even though I didn’t add many to the short film itself. I also acquired
skills within Adobe After Effects which helped me do the title credit and end credits for the short
film. Being able to add effects to the writing to make it do the things I wanted it to, to blend in with
the genre and fit to the short film, I found that easy to do and I thought it was a useful skill gained.
In conclusion to all my experience of doing this assignment, There are certain things within the short
film itself that I would change or add to. For instance, I would like to get more knowledgeable with
Premier and add more transitions within the video instead of just using cuts and simple transitions.
And I would rerecord the sound which I recorded in the certain areas within the short film where the
sound quality didn’t seem up to scratch with the rest of the sound within the short film. I would also
get more of the teachers help or someone who knows Premier well in order to give me a better
understanding of the program in order to gain that professional quality that I need and help me
produce a better quality short film.