P3: Production Schedule

D1: Post Production Analysis

Analysis of Post Production.

When audiences go to see a horror film they expect to see specific things that link to the horror genre and i tried to interpret these things during post production.

Pineclones Productions is a short movie that we planned to be of the horror genre. I tried to edit my film to conform to the codes and conventions of a horror film.

The first thing i edited to do this was the starting title of the film, most horror films show a short scene with no dialogue and this input a title screen and this is what i have done. Serif font is used because audiences will recognise this as horror style lettering and helps meet the audiences expectations that they are watching a horror film. this font was downloaded from a copyright free source called dafont.

For lighting and colour correction i used an effect called day to night which made the scenes darker and more gritty this gives the film a more edgy and eery look to it making the audience feel as if they are in a night time setting. We used mainly medium shots this is so that we could see all the characters in.

We used mid close up shots in Pineclones because when we wanted to capture a moment that was intense and important to the plot so we brought the camera closer this is so that the audience can feel more involved and makes the scene more immersive. This shot is still effective because it shows the characters individually without any other interference and it helps to capture character emotion.

When we were editing the film, we took into account the genre was horror, so we used certain techniques to give it a horror genre look. For example creating suspense which is built on the audience’s anticipation. A video editor- in our case final cut pro, can use the timing and pace of clips to build this anticipation and grow suspense. There is no set formula for building suspense through timing and pacing but there are some basic guidelines that serve as a solid foundation.

Its usually best to use short clips and quick transitions in the action scenes (in our case the horror scenes running from the little girl) Therefore in post production when editing we made sure to use short clips with quick transitions in order to build the sense of action and chaos this crates fear. This is shown below where as u can see the start is long clips of the girls watching the horror films creating a feeling of normality and safety, and later on the clips are shorter breaking the feeling of normality and safety.

Sound effects play a large part in horror films to create further understanding of the plot and also as a technique to create scares or jumps, i added sound effects in post production with the though of doing this. Sound also plays a very large part in horror films as it is used as one of the main techniques to build tension and suspense and i added royalty free music into my post production to do this.

P4: Final Film

P3: Notes to Organise Timescale and Milestones

Pineclones Production Meetings.

P5: Film Editing Process

Film Editing Process



As the first part of editing we imported
our media files from the camera SD card and
into Final Cut Pro. this gives us the ability to drag and drop the clips into the timeline as we wish.










After the clips have been dragged and dropped into the timeline then we had to link up the dialogue recordings. This is because when we were filming our short movie we used and external microphone that Aalyan was holding so that we could capture the dialogue better than the camera could. he then clapped and we linked up the clap in the video and the sound recording.








Pineclones was set/scripted to be filmed at night however after experimenting with the camera we found that filming at night caused the video to become grainy and of a poor quality so our solution was to use FCP's 'Day to Night' filter which can be changed and customised to make your clip filmed in the day appear to be filmed at night.








To make the final credits of the film we inserted a black cut and stretched to the desired length, we then inserted text displaying our names and roles. the same technique was used on the opening title screen.

M2: Consideration of Legal and Ethical Issues

Legal -

15 – Suitable only for 15 years and over - No one younger than 15 may see a 15 film in a cinema. No one younger than 15 may rent or buy a 15 rated video work.

Imitable behaviour - Dangerous behaviour (for example, hanging, suicide and self-harming) should not dwell on detail which could be copied. Whether the depiction of easily accessible weapons is acceptable will depend on factors such as realism, context and setting.


Threat - There may be strong threat and horror. A sustained focus on sadistic or sexual threat is unlikely to be acceptable.

Language - There may be strong language. Very strong language may be permitted, depending on the manner in which it is used, who is using the language, its frequency within the work as a whole and any special contextual justification.

Violence - may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury. The strongest gory images are unlikely to be acceptable. Strong sadistic violence is also unlikely to be acceptable. There may be detailed verbal references to sexual violence but the depiction of sexual violence must be discreet and justified by context.

Above are the BBFC regulations for a media production being rated as a 15. I believe Pineclones meets the criteria for being rated as such.  Pineclones doesn't feature any Imitable Behavior such as self harm however it does show the murder of one of our characters however this is done in a non-violent/detailed way and there is no blood or gore. Pineclones does feature the Threat of a masked man chasing the characters be we believe this is a light usage of a threatening character and the costume design used doesn't make the character look scary. Pineclones does feature the use of Strong Language however it isn't used in large amounts with the odd curse word being featured in the dialogue, there is also no use of intense strong language. Finally Pineclones Shows very brief Violence in the final scene that shows the death of the character 'ben' however it is light violence and there is no detail on pain or injury of the character. 

The other legal issues surrounding my production are: Contracts for actors, Permission to Film in Locations and Copyright Laws. All of our actors signed contracts to be in the film and they agreed with the terms and conditions this contract gives us the permission to use the actors and there characters on screen and in our production. We filmed pinecones on Ilkley Moor which is an area with no photography or videography restrictions so there was no legal restrictions on what we could do however Ilkley moor is surrounded by privately owned moorland so we had to stay in the area that we chose to film in. copyright - copyright issues can occur when inputting music and sound effects, to deal with this we used royalty free music from a website so that the music couldn't be claimed. 

Ethical -

Pineclones only shows one specific social group and that is teenage boys, I think that the representation that we used for this group is fair the teenagers are drinking under age, this is not seen in the film but one character asked "does anyone want a beer" in the UK 85% of 15-17 year olds say they drink underage and this has been represented in the film. I don't think that we represented the teenage boys in a bad way as we made them out to be resourceful and smart however one of the characters, Ben, is represented to be a violent character when the masked man is assaulted with a bottle. taking into account the Effects model i don't think that Pineclones features anything that would inspire young audiences to imitate the behavior as it shows not use of drugs and no heavy violence it is also a fictional storyline that would never happen in real life.

Rough Cut 1 - Film