Editing Day 3

EDITING DAY 3

In today's lesson it was much more productive, as we had alteast 3minutes of the opening sequence done. However we had to take out some parts and edit it futher to detail to makesure it didn exceed over the maximum which was only 2 minutes. This was fustarating as we took out scenes that we would have liked to have included in our final opening but changes have had to be made.

We managed to also download 2 soundtracks for the charaters Cassie and Trevor. "Beyonce - Crazy In Love" from youtube and another remake of a song from creative commons copyright free for Trevor which is is an urban beat to suit his character. The soundtracks have been cut down and edited precisely to match these two particular characters properly.

Using more tools from final cut pro, we added slide transitions on some of the clips which were called "cross dissolve" for Jakirs characters Trevor scenes. Later we will be adding more slide trasitions on some other clips to make it more entertaining for the audience to look at. As Jakirs scene was quite long, we decided to use "cross dissolve" about 4 times to show that time was passing instead of showing a long boring scene at one angle. We also fiddled with some setting to zoom into Trevors face whilst talking on the phone to show that this was the focus of that part, the conversation on the phone with his mum.

One thing that my group are proud of and happy with positive thoughts is Cassie's scenes of the "popular girl" it was fun shooting this scene and even more entertaining watching it back. We had good comments from the rest of the students and teachers who watched this bit. Connecting all the clips together was easy however the difficultly of this was making it smooth flowly as they were shot at different angles and framings.

• Nadia and Thahmina getting carried away editing, working together as a team

Day 3 of editing was the most intense out of all the other editing sessions we had. The reason for this was because we had more scenes added to Final Cut Pro and more and more of it was getting and we faced problems of our footage being too long.

In this editing session we added on the soundtrack for Cassie's bedroom scenes. The soundtrack we used was Beyonce - Crazy In Love and we were allowed to use this because we showed that Cassie had played the track on her phone whilst getting ready for college in the morning. We had positive comments for this particular section of the opening as the scene really emphasised her girly character and the shots had good timing with the music. 

For Trevor's scenes we realised that there were not enough shots in different angles which was a problem because it would bore our audience if the scene is just still on one angle. We found a solution to this which was that we edit the actual scene on final cut pro and zoom the whole scene in to his face to make it appear as a close up. Also, to make the scenes seem as though Trevor was taking his time in the morning after telling his mum he was not going to be late, Marissa advised us to use transitions to show a series of shots whioch would show that the time was passing. We used a transition called 'Cross Dissolve' which we found was the perfect transition to show time passing as it looked like he was fading through scenes as well as overlapping. We have still not yet found a soundtrack for Trevor's morning scenes but our plan is to find an urban track that would reflect his character. We did look through creative commons to find one but unfortunately we have not selected an overall one yet. We know that we have to find a soundtrack which is copyright free as we would get into trouble if we use an artist's music without their permission.

We also have to find an overall soundtrack which plays in the beginning and during the scenes where characters are walking up to the lift in which they get stuck so that the audience is not bored watching silent scenes. We wanted general instrumental music so it relates to all the characters including Maya who is very different to the other two characters.

•  Jakir with the headphones on, putting on the soundtrack whilst Thahmina is blogging away in the background
  

Also my group and I have been staying back for workshops getting extra help with our opening sequence so that when we came to lesson we had less to do each time. I found workshop very helpful and I was able to get a lot more done as there were no distractions of the other students holding me back. WORKSHOP IS AWESOME!