Progress in editing

Editing and initial titles 

Yesterday my group and I continued to make alterations to our video and began creating titles for the extract. However due to us being off college over Christmas, we haven't been able to make any more improvements, so now we are having to use our time wisely and try to do as much as we can within our media lessons. Firstly we decided to cut down parts of the opening sequence due to the duration being too long and lasting over 3 minutes, and the extract is only meant to last between 1-2. However, we struggled to remove any scenes, as we felt that every clip was relevant, therefore we decided to remove a few seconds off each scene that we believed weren't significant and managed to have a shorter duration of 2 minutes and 47 seconds. Although, we feel that this duration is still too long and aim to at least remove another 10 seconds just to be safe and make the duration

more appropriate. We later decided that the image of an eye was too simplistic and not engaging enough, so we then came up with the idea to have a video of the eye opening rather than a still image , so therefore Izzy went into the photo studio and recorded our friends eye using an extreme close up. Whilst Izzy was recording, Emma and myself continued to cut down the extract and started to make another title. We came up with the idea of having a black background and presenting the text 'In association with...' and  ' Wood-fire images' in white and orange, sans-serif font. In addition, we decided to look on the internet and find an appropriate image that could be used to represent the company/title, however we decided that this would be an act of copy right, but luckily Emma had taken an image of a sunset and graveyard the previous weekend , so we decided to use this instead as it wasn't copied and made the title more original. Furthermore we believed that this image

related to the thriller theme and looked fairly sinister, due to the use of dark colours and the silhouettes of the trees and grave stone. When Izzy returned we uploaded and saved the footage onto the computer and downloaded the video onto the editing software. Again we believed that the footage was appropriate and related to the thriller theme as the lighting was fairly dark and dull, and therefore this made our friends skin look paler and her eyes brighter and more noticeable.