Software used:
- Live Text
- Final Cut
What have we done today?
- Watched what we had done so far, this enabled us to take a break at watching the opening which allowed us to notice mistakes and also re-freshened our memories before we began editing
- Chloe and I began to re-connect the animated title and institution logo, then adding the music i found which is entitled 'Dead Silence' onto the opening. Importing this onto Final Cut was quick and easy and in my opinion, defiantly fitted the concept to what we were trying to portray. However, we did have some problems when cutting the music as it did not fit with certain parts of the clips. For example, we wanted the up-tempo, distorted music to come in when the black screen appears and Snow White begins running through the woods as this will also make the audience scared along with the main character, although, as we did cut this, the music did not flow. Fortunately, I was able to slow down the duration of the first half of the music where it will be played during the EST shots to 6 seconds instead of 3 seconds which made a successful impact. In addition, i connected these two pieces of music together by fading them into one another.
- Nicola finished off creating the credits using 'Live Text', however, when we added them to the opening they were too fast and quick for the audience so Nicola made the duration much more slower. Although, while Nicola did this Chloe and I practiced adding a 'Test' title. Firstly, we rotated the title to be in position, change the boldness etc, allowing the title to fade in with the background.We did manage to find out ow to do this easily and quickly, although, we had to keep changing the duration of the text using Live Text which limited our timing.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: During the double media lesson, we ask a student in our media class to watch and honestly comment on our opening and how we can improve. We did this because Nicola, Chloe and I have been watching the opening several times a day and feel we cant notice the good aspects about the opening. Therefore, he suggested that:
- We should cut the scene a couple of seconds where we zoom into the shed as it lasts for too long and does not fit into the music - In order to do this, we agreed that this did not fit in time with the music so we cut the scene quick and easily. In result, this looked much better visually, dynamic and more powerful.
- We should place the title at the end of the opening as its more dramatic and is something which is usually done in many famous films however, we felt we wanted to be unique and different from the 'famous' openings.
- Although, we did have some advantages. For example, John said we extremely loved our music and how it fits with every scene and how it even made him want to know the rest of the story.
What will we do next lesson?
- we will come in the imac's during school hours and finish the opening by adding the voice over, credits and movie institutional logo.
- We will re-watch the opening, ask someone fro advice on how we can improve and apply this.
Conclusion:
- Today's lesson went very well and feel we have got a huge amount of work done which has made an extravagant impact on the whole opening, making it more intense, thrilling and gripping.
- We did have some disagreement during the process, however, we did manage to over come this by having discussions and believe it or not, we voted for certain aspects we disagreed to to come to a final decision. Although, i am defiantly happy with the final outcome, even though we still have a few aspects to add. In addition, i did find it was much less stressful than previous editing sessions.
- I am very trilled that we were able to add in the music so quick and easy as it changed the whole emotion and tension of the whole opening which we were hoping to happen which i admire and has defiantly came up with the right song a sits fits the concept perfectly.
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| Here we are rendering the video and audio after adding the soundtrack on |
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