Colourisation.
For a lot of our shots we wanted to show and give a cold feeling to them to fit in more with the times. The genre of the film also allows this to link in very effectively because its meant to be a sad looking film and the protagonist spends most of his time sad and upset in it which allows the colder colours to be more effective and be almost overused. We wanted to go for a more of a cold feeling in this because it reflects how the protagonist is feeling.
We needed to experiment with this feature for a while as none of us knew really how to use it correctly, our first idea was to just look at Youtube videos on how to do it but we wanted to learn how to use it together rather than watching tutorials on it. Eventually we worked out to correctly use the colourisation tool and we went right on our way. One of the main problems with this was we needed to colourise every clip rather than just one which made it a very long process as we needed to do it to each clip separately as some clips didn't need colourising. Eventually we managed to do this and are very happy with the end result.

Market research, this is something we did quite a lot of as we wanted to see how what our audience would look like. We started off by asking simple questions to those around us and then further moved onto sending out emails with small surveys so we could understand how our potential viewers would feel about this movie. The main part of our market research was our survey. We made it using a website called Survey Monkey which allowed to make our survey with ease and then send it to multiple contacts making it very easy for us to find out a lot of information in a short amount of time.

Mise-en-scene in depth.

One of the hardest things about our project was the mise-en-scene. As we based it in the 1940-50's we needed to have clothing and props that fitted the part. In one of our scenes we show the protagonist's son unwrapping a present which means we needed to have wrapping paper to fit the time period, to do this we used brown paper and string rather than modern wrapping paper so it fit the time period better. For clothing we used an old looking pinstripe suit for the protagonist and a small jumper and old grey school shorts for the son which we feel worked very well and looked the part.

In depth location.
We spent a lot of time looking at various different places. We needed something that looked very 1940's or around the time era which was very difficult in modern times. Eventually whilst just browsing Google earth in our local area we came across a small church slightly hidden away from the road which is perfect as it hid cars very well meaning we could keep it looking like its from the correct time.
Once we had chosen our location we needed to confirm we were allowed to film there so we got into contact with the staff there and they allowed us to record inside and allowed us access to the bell tower where we filmed our high angle shots.
For our second location we needed an old looking house which was very easy as one of our group members has this and an old fire place which made the mise-en-scene fit well with the location.

Another major problem we faced whilst doing this task was the editing software. We used a program called Sony Vegas pro which was quite intimidating at first as it all looked so alien to us. Eventually we learned to use the program with help from Youtube videos and help from our peers who knew a bit about the program. One of the main problems in Song Vegas we came across was the stabilization of the camera. We didn't have a tripod so some of the shots are extremely shaky meaning we needed to stabilize them but this made the frame rate drop dramatically so we needed to find a perfect balance between the two.
Another thing we struggled with was the colourisation. We wanted to try and make it look very cold, colder than it actually was to really set the scene, this was by far the hardest thing we had to do as none of us knew how to use the colourisation and we couldn't find a very clear video. Eventually we powered through and figured out how to use it and successfully colourised our video.

More in depths with  the shots and why we wanted to use certain ones. At the start of our movie we wanted to experiment with shots we haven't used in the past such as one from above or from a high place. To do this we needed to use the bell tower of the church which required me to email and ask for permission to gain access to the tower. Once we had access we needed to set up a tripod to try and get a steady shot but the tripod was very unstable and we had to use a lot of stabilisation in Sony Vegas to fix this. We also wanted some shots from above inside the church so we used the stairs on the altar and se the tripod up in a similar way, we used a different tripod this time which meant the shot was a lot steadier. We wanted to use these high shots as it typically shows a character is quite weak which is what we wanted to show in our protagonist. We aimed to show the effects of war not only on those involved but the families of them too. Showing the father is now weak and worn from mourning the loss of his son was far easier by using these higher shots than through mise-en-scene which was our initial idea to show this.

Editing has finally come to an end. We have worked very hard on the editing side of things. We decided to use a program called Sony Vegas Pro so we could have the video in 1080p at 60fps for the best quality.
Firstly we needed to make sure all of the clips were in chronological order, we didn't film this way so this took a while. Once we had all of the clips in order we needed to trim a few so it reached the 10% either way of the two minute limit. In total we were 0.5 seconds off the 10% over which was quite lucky. Next we needed to work on transitions and fades from each shot to have it in sync with the music, this by far took the longest out of everything we did. Keeping the music in sync with the video was an extremely frustrating task but was worth it in the end. One early viewer described getting "Goosebumps and a shiver down my spine" because of how well the music fits in with the video. The final parts were titles and colourisation. We wanted the movie to have a very cold appearance as the film itself is quite a sad one we needed to set the scene. Titles were quite difficult to fit in without filling a large amount of our film with them but we worked around this and put two on the same shot making things look a lot smoother.