Sunday 16 February 2014

Editing Final Lesson


Final Editing Lesson

In our final editing lesson we added the titles to our sequence. We started by choosing the font that we thought fitted the most with our sequence's atmosphere and then we picked the font size. We chose to have the titles in white so that even though the font size was relatively small it would still be visible to the audience. We then placed the titles into our scene. By looking at other film titles we had an idea of what titles to incorporate so that it would seem more realistic. Therefore we added numerous titles to our sequence, which was quite time consuming as we had to place them in certain areas of the screen so that they did not interfere with the action but were still readable. By adding a fade effect to the titles it made the transaction between each more fluid. Having completed this we turned our attention to the soundtrack and sound effects. We searched through different soundtracks until we found the right one, and then we slowed it down by 50% in order to make it sound more creepy and mysterious. We then placed it onto our sequence using Final Cut Pro. After this we searched for a sound of a neck cracking and added it into the end of out sequence. We had to time it correctly with the fall and make it subtle enough to be realistic but loud enough to be heard. We let the sound play for a long time and as at the end there was the sound of a rope creaking which created the idea of the body swaying. This sounded really realistic and added to the whole atmosphere of the piece. After some deliberation we decided to cut the music at the end when she is dangling from the branch as it drew more attention to the neck cracking sound thus really portrayed the finality of the girls death. At the end of the piece we placed the name of our piece, Gradual Decline, on a black background. This worked really well as it was after the action of the hanging thus conveyed to the audience that the opening was over and the rest of the story was about to take place. 

I am really happy with how our scene has cut together and our group worked really well during editing as we each contributed different ideas that, when combined, looked really good on screen. 

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