This is the first cut of our film, with a bit more editing it was going to the final cut. However as director I wasn't happy with the overall quality of the final parts. The camera jumped to much, people were out the shot and the sound was of poor quality. I felt that no amount of editing could make it seem as good as we wanted. We made the decision together to re-shoot the last shots from the tracking shots to the final femme fatale shot. However we agreed that this time I would be behind the camera rather than acting to give a helping hand and make sure everything is how it should be. However this put us in a difficult position and meant that people had to be recast and our previous femme fatale was too busy to reprise her role for the re-shoots so we had to recast two characters. Awkwardly the only person available to fit the role of Tony Maroni was James Denton who also did the voice over for our detective. We had to make sure that the voice sounded differently so no one would notice. I tested the voice on three people and no one noticed that they were the same person so I consider it a success. Our new Femme fatale was also able to film more shots allowing for a variety of camera angles instead of just still shots that, on paper looked decent but in practice did not.
Our final cut of the film is shown below and as a group I can safely say we are much happier with this version and the re-shoots. although they set us back and became quite stressful, it was definitely worth it in the end. We had created the cut that all of us hoped for when first penning the storyboard and script.
Thank you for witnessing my creative journey and I hope you enjoy watching what we've enjoyed making, thank you.
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