MAIN Post 9: Production

During the filming and editing of Behind Blue Eyes my group and I had to make various decisions when filming and after nearly finishing the editing we had to make some revisions of the work produced. These decisions were made as a group and we made them in order to produce the outcome of the film a lot better.

A big decision our group made when editing the first section of our film together was to take out the scene of Sophie and Paige at Paige's house and of Sophie getting out the car and walking towards her own house. These were replaced with a scene of Paige and Sophie walking away from school and into Alan's car and another scene of them both inside the car, beginning to drive away with Alan. This decision was made as we thought by adding the scene of them both in Paige's bedroom it'd feel to the audience as the opening sequence has ended and the film had begun properly, almost as if they'd missed watching and skipped a scene out. 
Even though the shot of the girls getting into the car outside Paige's house was cut, we kept the shot of them getting into the car just, this time outside the school instead. This shows the girls walking towards the car, and we can therefore still show Alan looking out the car window at them highlighting the fact he's looking at Sophie's short skirt and loose tie.

Personally I think this was a good decision made as the end result of the girls walking to the car and then the shots inside the car look really good and contribute in getting the mood and part of the plot across to the audience.




Another decision we made together was at the beginning of the opening sequence in the graphical sequence. The decision we made here was because when filming we captured lots of different shots of the colouring pencils, this was helpful during editing as we put several shots of this in from different angles. This gave some slight hints of bolder colours in the graphical sequence, rather than it showing dull colours and possibly even boring the audience watching.  

During the editing of the opening sequence we had to make several decisions, these being where to put the opening titles, what font to put them in and how many to have. From our research after watching drama films, we found out that there are a lot of opening credits and from this we wanted to be conventional in putting the majority of them in.

However when we were putting these credits in, with the amount there were, we couldn't put our four names on every single one of them. For this reason we made some names up so that when the audience was watching the opening sequence our names weren't repeated at every opening credit there was. For us this made it feel and hopefully look more realistic.


We also took out a shot in the opening sequence, this was the one from inside the locker where we would've seen Sophie getting her books out and shutting the locker door, leaving a black screen for 'Behind Blue Eyes' to appear. The reason we decided to take this shot out was because it was difficult to keep continuity and keep the camera still whilst filming and when editing we discovered the title looked better on a black screen anyway.
Another decision we had to make regarding the opening credits was where to put them and for this reason some of them may differ from what the shot list originally states. We spent ages deciding where about to position the credits, we wanted to put them evenly spread through the title sequence and in places that looked visible yet not taking up the entire screen.

Overall all the decision we made as a group during the filming and editing stages have been good ones, from them they help in make the film what it is and also get the plot across well.