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'.