Video Project Roles Log by

Pre Production Phase (Feb - April)

jhealey5_2 — 2024-05-05 00:13:34 UTC

As my roles were both post-production roles, there wasn't really too much for me to do in the early phases of creating One Good Turn, however I still came around to the pre-production sessions so I could learn more about the project, and offer as much help as I possibly could.

Production Day 1 (15/04/24) - Team Meeting

jhealey5_2 — 2024-05-05 00:23:44 UTC

On this date, we had a whole cast and crew meeting with our director Khieng. This was important as it gave a good perspective of what to expect from the next few weeks.

I received the project hard drives from Khieng at this session, ready for the work to begin on my Data Wrangling role the next day.

Production Day 2 - Interview Scene Shoot (16/04/24)

jhealey5_2 — 2024-05-05 00:27:32 UTC

This was the first day of my data wrangling role, to keep the small room non congested, I stayed away from the main shoot until the end of the call time where I came and collected the shoot hard drive and SD card.

When I arrived at home, I got to work on renaming the video and audio files and ensuring they were in the film hard drives ready for the beginning of post production.

I was further given perspective of the importance of the data wrangling role through this, and how much it helps out the editing team in the post production phase of the film.

Production Day 3 - Jeff's Flashback (17/04/24)

jhealey5_2 — 2024-05-05 00:32:58 UTC

Once again I decided to disappear for the majority of this shoot, to give the cast and crew enough space to work their magic.

I arrived to the set in the morning to drop off the hard drive from the day before, and came back at the end of the shoot to collect the hard drive to continue my data wrangling responsibilities as usual, ready for the next day which would be the start of post production and my editing role!

Post Production Day 1 - Interview Scene Editing (18/04/24)

jhealey5_2 — 2024-05-05 00:38:50 UTC

This was the start of my editor role, as the offline editor I was responsible for putting the story together. Piecing together the edit was difficult as I had limited editing experience, however my director Khieng was alongside me to help me develop my editing skills over the weeks that we went on.

We sat together from 10am until 5pm putting together the first scene of the film, including matching audio to video and making sure the shots flowed correctly together.

On this day in particular, I developed my skills in making narrative flow through editing to bring a story together.

We were able to produce a solid rough cut for Scene 1, which gave me an idea for how the editing of the film would need to look to match the comedic tone.

Post Production Day 2 - Jeff's Flashback Scene Editing (19/04/24)

jhealey5_2 — 2024-05-05 03:18:23 UTC

On this day, I was set with a new challenge in my editing role that I had to adapt to. To make this scene work the way it was intended, it had to be very fast paced, while keeping the narrative structure intended.

With Khieng's guidance, I pieced the scene together in it's intended fast pace to keep up with the comedic tone of the scene and film overall.

Production Day 4 - Flat Scenes (22/04/24)

jhealey5_2 — 2024-05-05 20:41:37 UTC

I wasn't on set at all this day, as the set had a maximum number of cast and crew due to the Airbnb's restrictions. This does not mean that this was a day off for me, as my data wrangling role still continued on as normal, collecting and naming 4 scenes worth of audio and visual footage and making sure this was all ready for the shoot hard drive to be returned in the morning.

Production Day 5 - Park Scenes Day 1 (23/04/24)

jhealey5_2 — 2024-05-05 20:45:00 UTC

I was able to fully observe the shoot on this day, which I was excited for as I could try and get a perspective of how the editing process would work and come together for this scene.

Unfortunately, this was a rather difficult day for production as we had quite a few set backs. The weather had started off too gloomy for our plans, especially seeing as it didn't match the weather for the day after and unfortunately the actor of Sally could not make it as she was ill.

We were able to get a few good shots and a scene in the bag, which obviously gave me my data wrangling job to complete following the conclusion of the shoot.

Production Day 6 - Park Scenes Day 2 (Wrap) (24/04/24)

jhealey5_2 — 2024-05-05 20:48:25 UTC

Once again I made myself present for this shoot, this was our final day of shooting and although a very long day, we got there in the end and was able to wrap on the production phase of One Good Turn.

This also brings the end of my data wrangling role, as I named the final scenes and audio files and now everything was ready for post production to continue in full flow.

Post Production Day 3 - Flat Scenes Editing (25/04/24)

jhealey5_2 — 2024-05-05 20:54:48 UTC

Returning to my editing role, now production had concluded post production was in full swing.

Khieng and myself got to work on editing together the flat scenes and I managed to get through 4 scenes during this day, the film was really starting to flow together and I felt my skills were improving during this point too, I felt that I was able to piece together a narrative more effectively.

Post Production Day 4 - Park Scenes Editing (26/04/24)

jhealey5_2 — 2024-05-05 21:06:27 UTC

For this day, I would be editing the remaining scenes for the film. These scenes were tricky to edit, as they had to be done in a particular manner to match the tone of the film. There was also two scenes that I needed to directly link, and make it look good narratively. This day tested my skills as an editor, however I feel like the work I had done over the last week had helped me get through it.

Post Production Day 5 - Picture Lock (27/04/24)

jhealey5_2 — 2024-05-05 21:13:25 UTC

With all the scenes edited, it was now time for Khieng and myself to go through each scene and check for any mistakes that may need fixing. Once we ironed out all of the remaining kinks, we put the scenes together and created a full cut of One Good Turn.

Khieng and myself watched through the edit and decided to place it in picture lock, ready for James to take over on colour grading therefore ending my role as editor and my role in the film altogether.

During the post production process, I learnt a lot about editing and Premiere Pro that I wasn't so confident in before, I am glad that through this I have been able to develop further skills.