Making of The Heist (Practice 2 mintute Opening)

When making our Two Minute opening of the Heist we ran into some problems such as having to change the script. We had originally planned to use Body Guards in the film that would protect Ricardo and were used to create the climax after Fizz Shoots them accidently. When it came to our day for shooting the film the bodyguards were unavailable so change to the script was needed. In the end we decide that climax would be build through Fizz accidently pulling the trigger and firing his gun into the air allowing Ricardo to act on Fizz. We feel this was a better idea than our original idea because we wanted to condense the film down more because we felt the opening would become to full using un-needed characters to portray the opening meaning of the film. 

After shooting all the shots and ensuring they were of a great standard I started to put the clips together editing the shots, we condensed some of the longer clips that wasted our 2 minutes for example when walking out of Ricardo's Den the clip was 7 seconds, I then condensed it down to 3 minutes to keep the opening smooth and clean with constant action and movement. Our film had very little dialogue but used a song instead that ran over the whole opening this created a nice atmosphere and kept the audience drawn in because it became a lot more exciting with the use of music. It then came down to inserting sound effects such as gun shots, cocks and car door slams etc. I put these on a separate track and unlinked the original recorded sound and silence it then put the music on another track and inserted sound effects through on another track as shown here-

   If you look closely at the first section of audio on Audio Track 2 you can see it has a purple underline on it, this is were I have used a volume and a de-hummer effect to increase the volume and to cancel out any unwanted hum that I could hear.