Editing – 4

Today was the last day of editing!

We all worked solidly for as long as we could because we wanted to finish so badly. Thankfully, it paid off.

effects used on new clips/different camera quality

We got the new clips of the party sequence and cut them all into quite small clips in order for them to fit in with the other clips. We added the blurry effect

onto these aswell to keep with the ‘drunken memory/flashback’ idea.

We also added in the extra titles we needed today.

We included the important ones within the actual filming, but didn’t do all of them, so we decided to make it look more professional we would add these titles in during editing.

titles

‘Under The Sheets’ main title

We also added in the final main title “Under The Sheets” at the end. We chose to put it at the end of the opening sequence rather than at the beginning because we took ideas from a lot of films that we had watched and inspired us, and this is what they did so

we decided it’d look more professional if we did it this way.

All of the titles are smooth transitions, clear to read text and simple writing. We haven’t done anything ‘fancy’ with them because we didn’t think it would really benefit the piece that much. We also imported the Chase and Status song ‘Time’ into Final Cut Pro, and cut it where necessary, and luckily it fitted in really well with the clips and titles. We found a point in the song where it would be appropriate to cut, so Emily could deliver her line, and again we were really lucky because the timing in line with the footage was really good and fitted brilliantly.  Now we have finished editing the piece together, we are really happy with the work produced and feel a lot better about it now than what we did before we had today’s session.

We are now ready to burn to dvd, which is the final step in the production of our opening sequence.

Editing – 3

After finally filming the final sequence we needed, we got together all of the clips and began editing them all together.

We needed about 45 seconds of footage to reach the 2 minute mark, so during filming we filmed just under 10 minutes. This gave us the freedom to chose clips we wanted, to try things out and have the choice to cut things out we didn’t like.

We used the same effects which we discovered earlier in editing and added them over the clips, as these are all part of the flashbacks.

Emily unzipping Ryan’s jacket. An example of the effect discussed above. 

We have now created an order, and used the original idea we had of having the clips alternate between the bathroom and the party. We have been looking at title designs for the main title “Under The Sheets”.

Aftet editing for a few hours, we discovered we still need an extra 15 seconds until we reach the required 2 minutes. We tried to re-use some footage from the party, but it didnt look professional enough, and we thought it looked bad. So, as a group we decided to organise another day to film.

This means we have been put back a little bit, however we will work really hard in order to meet the deadline and have the product at a high standard.

Editing- 2

We now have the clips of Emily in the bathroom, so we have chosen which we want to use and cut them to the right length, changed the speed of some (i.e. slow motion or sped up) and began creating an order with the flashbacks.

It’s starting to take shape now, especially as we are getting to grips with the editing software. During editing, we found some effects which we think would look good over the flashback clips. They make the clips look slightly blurry and out of focus, which we feel reflects a memory and/or (in this case) a blurry drunken memory that isn’t too clear to the character. We’re hoping by adding this affect the audience will understand the concept of the piece, and be able to recognise the two events are occurring at different times.

We also slightly changed the colour of the party clips to make them ever so slightly more blue. This is because the clips in the bathroom have this appearance already, and we want the whole product to be consistent.

We originally wanted to use the song ‘Watercolour’ by Pendulum because we thought it would fit well. However, after listening to other songs, we decided that maybe it wouldn’t be appropriate.

So now we plan to add the song ‘Titanium’ by David Guetta ft Sia. We have chosen this because we feel like the tempo of the song is appropriate, slow to begin with and then builds up, just as we want our product to. We looked at lots of drum and bass songs that do this, but the reason we chose ‘Titanium’ over other songs is because we feel the lyrics are more fitting to the theme of our media.

Once we have finished editing the clips together, we will add the song so we can edit it and cut it to the length we need.

Editing

We began editing our sequence today.

We gathered our clips we had filmed for the party sequence, and looked through each one and decided which ones would work well in our piece, and which ones we didn’t want to use. Once we had chosen which ones we wanted to use, we started to cut them down, change the speed of them and remove the sound.

We are editing using Final Cut Pro as this offers a sophisticated and simple style of editing, enabling us to create a media product edited in a professional style the short amount of time we were given.

We found it quite difficult to edit a great amount as we don’t have any other clips outside of the party sequence, however we have started making good progress and have a clear idea of what we want the final product to look like.

Next editing session we will hopefully have more clips to edit so we can start to build the story.