Our group decided to make a short clip of an action/war sequence for our film studies work. Originally the idea was sparked from mine and another from the group’s idea. So we combined the 2 and decided on a sequence where 4 special operation forces broke into a terrorist facility and rescued 3 hostages.
When I first put everything up onto the timeline from our first series of filming, I noticed not much diegetic sound was involved in the sequence, and as I was decided to be the main editor for this group I found it harder to make the sequence make a lot of sense. So we decided to create some sounds and a basic soundtrack for the piece. We all put in our different opinions and I proposed that it should have an intense and slow sounding beginning intro which builds up into an explosion of high intense fighting music.
When we went out to film we had a lot of very good shots filmed and a lot of ideas also sparked in the filming location. One issue was finding all of the lighting for inside of the building to make the camera show up the people enough. We did eventually get the lighting right but after we finished the cut of the film and uploaded it the quality was reduced and it looked to dark so we thought we could change this if we re did the lighting in editing but it did not work as when it was uploaded the quality was reduced again.
A lot of the camera work was hard to decide on but we did mostly mid shots and close up’s as if you were involved in a high action fight. We would have added in more shots if we had more time for example we wanted to add in a close up of there feet as they were running through the muddy puddles.
When I started the final edit on this short scene I thought of many different effects that would work very well with the piece. For starters I thought adding in a lot of changes between fast motion and slow motion movements would give the sequence a more intense feeling to it and add a more stealthy feel as if the special ops were being careful on there whereabouts near the building, for example in this video sequence here:
When adding to the feel of the clip I decided that I should put in a more grainy effect over the entire section because if the colours were more dulled down I think that it gives it more of an action feel and like it is a much more intense piece and clip of this film.
This clip was originally intended to be near the ending of the main film and to be the last operation that this squad would attend to. But we decided that it would be better if the clip was at the beginning of the film and then the rest of the film could be changed to clips of how they got there and what happened to the one squad member who did not get captured.
My opinion of the final version is that I think a lot of parts could have been changed and made it a lot more intense. The sound I feel was the biggest issue for example there is appoint in the sequence where 3 of the special ops were running into the smoke and there is no gunshots noises there. Also with the whole sequence when the guns were being fired if we had added in a gun shot effect as in a picture of a small flame and added it in for 1 frame it would have made it look far more realistic. I also thought the whole last part of the clip where the special ops infiltrated the building would have been far better if it was a lot lighter but more grainy so if we had filmed it again I would have got a lot more lighting involved into the clip. One last thing that I believe could have been added or changed would be adding in some people talking over some radios between each of the faded parts of the clip.
