Editing Day 4

 

EDITING DAY 4

 

Todays lesson felt quite quick. My group and I were in a race against time to make sure we finish our opening to our film in this lesson, so that when we have the "FINAL" look at it we can just make, adjust the final tweeks before it can be presented to an auidence.

 

We started fixing up the feebacks that we had gotten from previous lesson, as it was crucial we did listen to them to better our final piece. We adjusted Jakir's "Trevor" bedroom scenes as this was quite long and boring, not to the point of that bit of the opening.

 

Today we also took out bits that we would have liked to add too our final piece however we had gone over time by 40secs when maxmium of the length of the film should be 2 minutes! This was very fustrating as we felt as if though we was taking out cruical parts to our film, but re-looking over it, I believe it looks better without certain scenes as some are to "dragging" and would get boring for the auidence to watch.

 

Futhermore, me(Thahmina) and Nadia learnt how to put the split screen on. It was quite complex at first however It became easy to use. There was alot involved such as:

• placing the videos on top of each other that you want to use for split screen
• placing the videos in a pefect line in comparison to each other
• having each of the characters going off the screen at them same time
• using the crop tool to get the video in perfect precision

We also managed to put on the soundtrack for the rest of the film where there was blank silence. The soundtrack was grabbed from Creative commons which is copyright free and called "Rap instrumental beat" which Nadia had found afters searching for so long. It is an urban beat which starts of sutle but gradually turned into a grime beat very street-fied and perfect match for our opening of the film.

 

Just before lesson was coming to an end. I had managed to quickly add in all the credits:

1. actors names
2. distributer ident
3. production ident
4. costume
5. castting
6. director
7. music supervisor
8. film title
9. end all the others

I wantedhe credits titles to be shown over the screen of the actual film instead of having a boring clear background. However, I did not do this precisly but I placed them in the spots I would like them to appear in. Hopefully in the workshop tomorrow I can just tweek this and all of that would have been completed. And then re-check the whole opening and if any quick changes needed to be made, I would quickly improve that making it ready to be shown at the cinema.