editing update 3

This is the final editing post that I will submit on my blog, as we came towards the completion of our opening sequence.

We decided to remove 3 of our 4 clips of the carboard 'crime map', as we felt that the use of the still image in the film was slowing down the fluency and eventually made the film far too long, bareing in mind that the opening sequence had to be somewhere around 2 minutes long. We still wanted to use the board in some way in the film after all the hard work we had put into photoshopping it so we have still used the still image effect once in the film.

We then added credits to the film (e.g director, music composer, editor), we did this by placing the credits around the split screen, we felt this was more of an inventive and interesting way of adding the credits rather than having them just running along the bottom. The way we had created our film also made it very easy to add the credits, but we did not want to credits to be too fancy as we didnt want to take focus off the actual film itself.

The last task we had to complete was adding the soundtrack to the film, we did this on a programme called Garage Band. This proved to be a difficult task because at first we were not sure what kind of sounds we wanted to add, but eventually we decided on using bass-heavy sounds which seem to work well the film itself, the soundtrack helps add a sense of mystery to the opening sequence.