Rough Cut

Today we continued to edit our film opening together and we managed to get all of the titles onto the clips and in the right places, we added the ident to the beginning and a sound effect at the end of the sequence to give the effect that something bad is happening to the characters. We also had a look around for some background music, it had to suit the genre of our film and we wanted it to create tension. We found some music called 'Forest Silence' and we both agreed this is music was the most appropriate for our opening sequence.

                                                            ROUGH CUT:

Voiceovers

On the Sunday after we had finished all of the filming in the woods, we recorded the voiceovers which will be played throughout the opening sequence. We had to use a voice recorder, this was quite easy to used at all you had to do was press a button to record and turn it off and the type of mic it had was good because it recorded all of the sounds that were around you, even if we did have to make sure it was extremely quite! 

All of the voiceovers that we recorded are written on my Screenplay post. There you will be able to see all of the voiceovers that will be played during the opening sequence and all of the actions that will happen.

1st Attempt

 The video in this post is our first attempt of our film opening sequence.I do not think that this is a very successful attempt as there are quite a few things that need to be done. We havent included any titles, music, or sound affectts so it is not very clear what the genre is or what is happening right now and we also need to improve the continuity throughout the sequence. To fix these problems we are going to return to our location to film a few more shots to which will improve the continuity throughout the sequence, we will also add our titles and find some background music which is appropriate for the thriller genre of our sequence. We also need to add the freezes when the titles are on screen and remove the audio which was originally on the clips from when we were filming.

Day Two of Editing

Today was our second day of editing, we managed to editing all of our clips together and in the right places. We did find a few problems though, these were that the colours of the clips did not match throughout the entire sequence and we feel that we didn't have enough footage.

To fix the colours we played around the the colours, saturation and exposure of the clips in Final Cut Pro to make them match as closely as we could, this made it look a lot more professional and better overall. We also made a few of the clips darker and lighter because some of them were too dark on screen and you could not see the footage clearly. Some other clips were too light and did not look dark or scary, which did not suit the genre of the film.

As we don't have enough footage, we are going to edit together what we already have and export it ready to be shown as our final cut, however we are then going to be returning to our location to do some extra filming which we hope is going to improve the continuity and general flow of the sequence.

Day One of Editing

Today during our media lesson, we uploaded all of our footage onto the computers and loaded them into Final Cut Pro. We watched all of them to help us decided on which ones we will need during our editing process and which ones we do not need and can be deleted. There were a few clips that we didn't need because they were little clips that were taken by accident and others that didn't look as good as we had expected. However we did film each part several times just incase some of them were as usable as others, which was good as we needed the extra clips! 

We also got time to start some of the editing today aswell, which is good because it means that we will find out if there is anything we need to re-film or improve on sooner rather than later. We decided that we were going to edit all of the clips together first and then add music,effects and voiceovers afterwards.

 

Behind the Scenes

I thought that it would be good to show a few clips that were filmed during the day and show you what happened behind the scenes! These few videos are short but show our planning throughout the day and a few decisions that we made.

Filming Day 1

Just a short post to say that today we went to Weston Woods to start the filming of our film opening title sequence. It look us a little while to get there as we had to get two buses and walk up a giant hill, it was also very very cold but we got their in the end. The shots that we filmed today were the first 4 from our storyboard. I will include some examples of the shots that we had taken below.

The equipment we had to take to the woods with us was a tripod, a hand held digital camera, a GoPro camera and a voice recorder so we could record our footsteps whilst we were running. We also took all of our storyboards with us to keep track of what we were meant to be filming. I think that today was quite successful and we got lots of filming done!

Some examples of shots that we have filmed so far: