Our clip was from a British gangster movie set in the late 90’s. Itwould follow mainly that genre but also have aspects of Noir in there as well. Having to follow rules of these genres we found was quite challenging but very rewarding, for instance, Noir likes to take advantage of the darkness in a shot, when we did use the darkness at first we found that it would not look right but after finding the right spots and seeing what we had captured we realised how good it looks. We also had to follow rules to incorporate the entire storyline following a British Gangster plot, this included the types of things we said and the way we walked and even looked at each other.

Our clip was the end scene of the overall film and this is very interesting for the audience because there is quite a lot that needs to be explained. This either causes a large question to be created by viewers which can cause a lot of people being intrigued by it and watching it again and again and also telling others about it. It also gives the possibility for a sequel and even though this project gives to possibility for that, to imagine that this was a feature length film, it is a possibility.

Our influences included many films because of the many different micro features included in our film. The location was taken from “Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” because of the context of the scene (a plan being established) which is the same location as when the plan was established in Guy Richie’s 1998 hit. The background sound we felt was very effective in the character establishing scene of “Reservoir Dogs”, Quentin Tarantino’s second film as a writer and director.

I personally took on the role of Editor; this was an enjoyable task as I was in charge of making sure the clip flowed well and made sense as well as other things. To make sure the narrative made sense I had to piece all our shots together and cut them accordingly to make them flow and seem as if the whole thing happened at once. After a while I realised that this was extremely time consuming, so I decided to write a list of things I must do in each lesson, so that I got the editing done by the time set because I did not want to end up wasting any time. However, I also helped with the sound as I found that to make this clip work to the best of our ability both parts had to be working hand-in-hand and so I decided to assist in the choices made in the sound department. We found that most of the sound that was filmed could be scrapped, especially background noise and replaced with artificial sounds to create a more obvious atmosphere which hits the audience more subconsciously because of the lack of a “fuzzy” overtone. I also helped create the soundtrack for the clip, the background band in the bar, the outside scene and the credits.

Altogether, the group worked well to develop genre, character and narrative, we all decided prior to filming what we were going to wear and the costumes also told a lot about the character for instance it was clear Alex was the leader of the group because he was dressed the smartest. This also helped with the genre being established.

An obvious change that was made in our project was that we were meant to have a large amount of dialogue outside, but when getting to the location the noise was too loud so we decided to have no dialogue and to get rid of all the sound and put in car and other noises in during editing. The reason we did not want to do any folly was because we knew how time consuming syncing voices with moving mouths on screen can be, so we kept that to a minimum in other parts.

The audience were able to follow the film completely which means that I made it flow well.

The feedback I received about the editing was very constructive. I was complemented on how the story flowed and the continuity; however there was one part where two clips changed and it was not done as smoothly as possible so it sounded and even looked wrong, but these are all things I can take forward to the next project.

I believe that my skills enabled me to do almost everything I wanted to.