Editing Journal- Day 3

Today we inserted the opening titles along with the actors names. We did this by researching how to add titles in from google as we did not remember how to add the titles in. After finding out how to add them in we added two black screens at the begin with 'white' typing which the first screen contained "a film by" and the second black screen "A fair oaks production" which was our production name.

As  you can see from the image above that we typed what we wanted in the text-box. Then changed the font and size with the drop down boxes below the text-box. In order for the opening titles to be effective as a group we decided that we wanted to leave a couple of gaps between each letter when typing as our film was called "distance" we thought that this would be effective considering the title of our film.

We then inserted a normal text over the top of our piece but this time not with a black screen it was embedded into our piece. We used white text and this included placing our names at the beginning and then the actors names above where they appear on the screen. Again we left gaps in between each letter of our names and the actors for effect. We placed each text above our film where we thought it was most suitable.

We then received feedback from the head of our department and she told us the piece would work better if the diegetic sounds at the beginning were inserted back in because in her opinion it lacked a sense of reality e,g the door opening sound should be inserted back in to show a sense of reality. As a result of this we edited the audio levels to ensure they fit together with the music and didn't overshadow each other.

Another form of feedback which we received was that we should speed up the opening titles at the beginning. Therefore we took this feedback on board and sped up the beginning of the opening titles and then found that it was more effective and much better.

When coming to the final stage of our editing process we as a group decided what we personally thought needed improving and decided that the music needed an appropriate ending therefore we had to cut it in a place which was most suited the ending of our film opening and when we played this back indeed it did sound much more effective and overall a better ending.

We then rendered the entire piece and submitted it for a first round of evaluation.

This image above is a final image of what our editing time line looks like.

This is an image of what the main software which we used to do our editing was.