continuing editing and Initial Titles

More progress

Last Friday we carried on editing in our free period, despite not having a media lesson that day. We decided to make alterations and improvements to our sound , however Emma is most confident in this field, therefore she made the changes. Firstly, she ensured that the dialogue could easily be heard and understood by adjusting the sound levels. She then added transitions in front and behind the sound effects, so that when the audio is heard, it sounds professional and to a higher standard. 

We then later decided that the eye opening title needed to be re-filmed. This was because due to not using a tripod, the video was shaky and we all agreed that the poor filming may affect our final grade and loose us marks. Therefore Emma suggested that we got rid of the original footage and re-filmed using the Canon 700D camera instead of a smartphone as this would produce a higher quality video, that wouldn't be shaky due to the camera sitting on the tripod. Furthermore, after filming our friend's eye, we uploaded the footage onto the editing software, Adobe Premiere Pro and re-added the titles. In addition, in our original footage we attempted to use a graphic match of the 'o' in 'production' with the eye pupil. However, the text didn't look appropriate and was out of place, so we decided that the text should be presented on the left hand side, next to the eye. 

In the second hour, we viewed the whole extract from the beginning and decided that the ' In association with Woodfire Images' didn't really match our extract, so we then removed the image of the gravestone and trees and then re-added the text onto where the establishing shot of the house is presented. The reason for this was because we felt that the introduction of the extract would come across as more professional, and also by adding the title here, the duration of the sequence was shortened, and this was something in which we wanted to achieve anyway due to the duration being too long.  

Towards the end of our media lesson, Izzy added the main title 'UNORTHODOX', which is the name of our opening sequence at the end of the extract. As mentioned earlier, we were inspire by another students opening sequence and use a similar title style to theirs. Whilst Izzy created the title, myself and Emma had an input on what the colour should be of the text and the size of the font. We also added a ' boom' sound effect for when the title appears, as we found that this made the ending more dramatic and engaging.

 Furthermore, we plan to make a title list in our next media lesson, and chose the size and font of the text before adding the actual titles. And if we have any spare time, then we plan to add the newspaper reports over the footage as again this will be effective and create tension.