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.

editing update 2

after adding the split screen to our film we then wanted to photoshop images onto the board that the tramp would be carrying around london with him, this would be difficult to perfect and ended up being quite a time consuming task. although it looked great after we had finished doing it and applied it into our film. We all had some history of using photoshop so it was a much easier task to complete, unlike when we all had to get used to using final cut which is a complicated programme to get used to.

The only issue we had with this is that the image from photoshop could only be made into a still image with zoom added to it, it still looked good but it still wouldve been much more effective as a moving clip, the opening sequence was finally all coming together and all we had to do now was edit a few more aspects of the film to improve fluency and then add credits and music and we would be finished.

editing update 1

after watching the opening sequence of the film mesrine we decided to implement this idea into our own opening sequence, this would take extensive amounts of editing on Final Cut, this was a new experience for everyone in my group as none of us had much previous film editing experience and it took us time to get use to the software available, as at first it was confusing

we eventually added the split screen idea to the large majority of our film, leaving some shots out to show a variety of filming techniques in our opening sequence. This would add a sense of fluency to the film. The use of the split screen also helped solve any continuity problems we previously had encountered.

Below are a few images of us editing our opening sequence, with Final Cut open on one screen and our storyboards which we had scanned in on the other screen