Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation question 1

Final Title Sequence- Third Time Around

Editing our footage 10 (Extra session)

This was our final session of editing and it came rather late as I had been on a trip for the past week. We all got together yesterday after school to finally get the sequence finished. I thought that it would be a good idea to watch our sequence through first so that we knew what we could improve and touch up on during this session. The main theme of the session was inserting transitions to improve the professionalism and flow of our piece as it was rather jumpy before this. The main two transitions that I chose were 'cross dissolve and fade to colour' which both fitted in very well to our piece.

We then noticed that some of the shots were not as dark as we would have liked them to be and so we played around on Final Cut to solve this problem. After finding this area, we used the exposure method to make these shots darker and therefore more appropriate for a horror film as this is what we are creating. Beth lowered the exposure to suit it for our needs as this would make the audience feel a little more tense during the sequence in the part where the antagonist is walking up the stairs with the POV shot.

To finish off the sequence, I adjusted the positioning of some of the textual titles so that they were clearly visible for the audience to see as they watch it. This was not outstandingly necessary however these little changes can just make a difference for the audience and so this polished off the seqeuence and made it ready to upload to YouTube, The sequence will be available to see in my next post. It is titled 'Third Time Around'.

Editing our footage 9 (Extra session)

This session took place after school on Wednesday where Beth and I came back in the absence of Eboni who had a dentist appointment. Our main focus at this point was just touching up our sequence, mainly in terms of sound. After watching the sequence back, we realised that we could include a little more diegetic sound with the help of the sample sounds that were already imported onto Final Cut Pro. Miss had suggested that we added in little sounds of door creeks and wind which was relatively easy as we knew the exact places that these would and so this was not a problem. We then needed a dramatic noise which would be played whenever the antagonist came into shot throughout the sequence. I scrolled through these sounds and managed to find one called 'Drone dark 02' and this was perfect as it increased both drama and tension when the dark figure showed up. I dragged this into each sequence where the character was visible and we agreed that this just added a discrete improvement to the sequence; all of which are very useful.

This would be the last piece of editing that I did myself however, due to Eboni's absence on the Wednesday, she said that she would make up her time and put it in the final touches to the sequence which would be a massive help.