Final Product

Key decisions made:
- Pre-production I made a list of the various shots that I needed to do takes of so that I ensured that I did not miss any. I filmed each shot from around 3 or 4 different angles to then choose the best ones in production. Therefore many shots were unused but this was predicted. I recorded many walking shots of Chloe in order to put in gaps where the voice over would not match the action instead of using a black space to fill the gap.

- My decision was to use black spaces in between many of the shots. This is to add tension but mainly to separate the shots of her face or walking so that the voice over can match the timings of the shots. As in many trailers that aim to add tension e.g. Fifty Shades of Grey, black spaces are used in order to change locations or change the shot and so I used this same technique regularly in the opening of my film.

- The timing of the music had to be carefully thought out as I did not want it to build too early, in particular before Chloe left the coffee shop. In order for this to happen I had to copy the opening beat and paste it so that it occurred twice, but I don't think this is extremely noticeable apart from the slight change in how loud the beats are, but this is only noticed by me as I know why it is doing so, but to the audience they may just think it is part of how the song is.

- The loudness of the music compared to the voice over was important as I wanted the voice over to be the most important and noticeable thing rather than it being drowned out by the background music. As a result I adjusted the voice over individually per clip as some parts were louder than others and also as the song built and got louder I needed to match it with the voice over's loudness. I chose to have the song quite quiet at the start but then it begins to increase in loudness as the story unfolds.

- The voice over was recorded in a long take and so this had to be cut into individual sentences before it was to be used. I tried a variety of different possible timings for when the voice over would come in, per clip and black space timings. I think the final production has the best possible arrangement in terms of where the voice over fits, the speed of it and the loudness of it.