Editing our footage 7

Beth today put in some diegetic sound of wind and the squeak of a door which we used from what was available on Final Cut pro. I then added in the non diegetic music of a piano to create tension when the figure is on screen and when we watched these parts back we were very happy with how it looked and sounded. I have now researched some existing films and what is contained within their title sequences. Here is the order that the titles usually come in:

1.    Name of the studio that is distributing the film.

2.    Name of the production company responsible for making the film. If an investor financed a substantial portion of the movie, they will usually be credited alongside the production company with “In Association with.”

3.    A (Producer’s Name) Production.

4.    A Film by (Director’s Name).

5.    Starring (this is optional or can be paired with the first cast member’s name), followed by the names of all principal actors.

6.    Film title.

7.    Featured cast members. A card that states “Featuring” used to be fairly commonplace but now appears to be falling out of fashion; in some cases, to speed up a title sequence, featured players are held off for the end crawl.

8.    Casting by.

9.    Music, composer, or original score.

10.    Production designer.

In the remainder of this lesson, I began to add in some text before we properly get started with it tomorrow. With help from Miss we went onto 'Dafont' and picked a relevant font that was similar to the one that Beth had created herself. She used publisher to convert the font from black writing with a white background to white writing with a black background as this was more suited to the fade transition at the end of the sequence. Whilst Beth was doing this I began to add text into the main body of the sequence. Myself and Eboni decided on the positioning of the text and put it in suitably. Together we looked through the available transitions and used specific parts of Final Cut to edit the colour and size of the text.