CONTINUING EDITING AND REFERENCING TAXI DRIVER

After uploading all footage, we had over twenty minutes of footage on the iMovie. Most of this is the footage of Julia as we filmed Julia for roughly ten minutes from two cameras so we have started chopping down on her scenes as well as trimming all other scenes. We have not yet been able to add the song to the programme as we cannot download it at home (a combination of download programmes not working for some of us and internet problems for the other). As a result, we cannot put the Julia singing scenes or the rap scene in order as we need the actual song on the programme so we can synchronize the words with the actors' moving mouths. For now, we have just edited out moments in which they were not performing or anything. We are definitely going to overlay Julia onto the narrative; if we were to have Julia in her own separate scenes, we would have to cut a lot of narrative footage and we need as much of it as we can to convey our message. Me and Aiden do not quite know how to overlay footage onto others, but Ali told us not to worry and that he will take the footage home when we have completed editing the narrative and performance sections so that he can do it at his home.

We are very happy with our effects. Lenses flares and colour contrasts have been added to the video; as a result the visual quality is a lot more stylized and looks like it could be a real video. We have also added blood to the shot that comes after Ali is kicked off his bike to emphasise the violence. WAY too much blood has been put - seriously you would think that with the amount of blood there is, his head exploded. However, when it came to toning it down, we decided to keep it in after all because it is rather epic and we can use it as a reference to violent moments in films where the blood is hugely exaggerated - POSTMODERNISM!



We are also satisfied with the effect of the cigarette being alight.



We still had to film the scene which references the Taxi Driver mirror scene, which we agreed I would do. So I steadily placed the camera and did a few takes (from different angles so we can mix it up during editing) to film myself entering the room and sitting down on the bed upon which I take off my white trainers (ay!) and then get up to the mirror. For the main part in which I mime pulling out the gun like Travis Bickle, I held the camera and kept it hidden from the shot as I filmed my reflection doing so.

Afterwards, for the sake of fixing the shoe continuity error, I filmed a close-up of me putting on the brown trainers whilst the white ones remained within the shot too. Obviously there is no reason why the character would do that, but that way people will see me changing shoes and then later on not think "hey how come he is wearing different shoes? continuity error!"