Editing our film.

When we uploaded all our footage to the laptop, we used Pinnacle studios to edit it. This was a good program to use as it had all the editing software that we needed. We had to spend a lot of time cutting and editing scenes, trying to make them fit together, working out which part went where and so on and so forth.

We started putting all the walking scenes together. We decided to use a lot of different camera angles at this point so keep the audience interested. When we were editing these parts we found some parts of the walking was not filmed very well so we had to re film these. We had to make sure our main character Rani was wearing the same clothes for the scene, as we didn’t want any continuity errors.

We decided to add a voiceover to our opening so the audience can understand how Rani is thinking and to get to know her better. We first tried to record the voiceovers on an Edirol but we decided that this was too quiet so we re recorded it on our camcorder. We then put the movie clips into the sound bar. We had to make sure the voiceovers fitted into the right time.

We had flashbacks in our film and we wanted to emphasize these so the audience wouldn’t get confused, so we made Rani wear different outfits for each one and had them all in different settings. Originally we wanted a glow effect to make it more obvious but unfortunately the software we used didn’t have it.

We had a bit of trouble at our splash scene as we had a lot of footage of Rani waiting for a car to come so we could splash her. We decided to do this scene twice as when we splashed her we could see that Frank was in the shot with the bowl of water to throw over her. When we were editing we found we liked the first part of the splash in one take and the second part where she was splashed in a different take. We had to cut and edit tiny parts of the scene to fit the two together so they would play as smoothly as possible. We decided in the end to add a small transition to mask the differences between the scenes.

We added titles of all the people who helped make the film. We had them on every corner at random places on different shots. We decided to keep the font simple yet effective so we opted for a white colour and a black shadow in case people didn’t see it. We also decided to use white as our font colour because in our research we found in most romantic comedies their font colour is usually white. We used this with our main titles Oh My Guru, we had them white with a black shadow as our background image was quite loud. We decided that every word Rani said we would make the word appear up, after and then it would go into the background. Our background, we think ties in with Indian culture we were going for.