Editing Day 5! WE'VE FINALLY FINISHED! HOORAAYY!

EDITING DAY 5 - The Final Piece

Today my group had finally finished our opening to our teen film "Trapped".

In our final day of editing me (Thahmina) and Nadia and Jakir had finally finished our opening! How joyful we were was unreal! We began editing from 11.30am till 3.35pm exact when we finished!

We faced a major problem when we came to the editing room as we found that all of our editing that we had produced on Day 4 had disappeared!
We started fixing up our split screen scene AGAIN which was annoying because we had to redo all that hardwork a second time.It was very frustrating for us and we were beginning to feel really drained. But, we didn't give up! We also added the sound track "rap beat instrumental" from creative commons to go with the footage as it gave an urban vibe as we are still in the blocks where we enter the lift and see each other for the first time for our story line.

•  A picture of one of our split screens. This is the bit where we all leave our houses at the same time and walk towards the lift. All 3 characters have a full body shot of them walking.



• A picture of Thahmina using final cut pro to do the split screens



Futhermore, today we also extended our credits to make them appear longer on the screen as before they were very quick and as an audience they wouldn't have been able to catch what it had said therefore we made them apear for at least 10 seconds each.

• An example of one of our credits on screen in white writing, also all the writing was one front "ludica gothic" sized at 16, and ajusted to be inside the screen safe box.

We also thought that the voiceover sounded quite plain and boring, so to add abit more emphasis and drama we thought it would be a good idea to have a soundtrack to be playing underneth the voiceover, we vaguly made the soundtrack "rap intrumental beat" low and we put the voiceover on loud. I think this made our opening much more interesting to listen too. Previosuly, we noticed that one of the bits on the voiceover was said in the wrong therefore we recorded the new version and quickly uploaded it to final cut pro. This was time consuming but we overcame this struggle quickly.

Moreover, another soundtrack we had used for Jakir's scene was "Rack city remix" which we had got from creative commons. We blended the 2 soundtracks into eachother as we didn't want them to have a bold stop as this sounded stupid, using the "chopper//crop" tool we managed to adjust the red line for sounds to our likings.

•  A picture of Nadia doing these alterations with the soundtrack

We also introduced our newly and improved distribution and production motion ident for the beginning of our teen film. We made these motion idents using the mac computers art thing. We made 2 quite different from each other. We also put music to our idents to make them much more interesting to watch. The music for this was a contrast to the actual movie as we thought that it would be clever and show a variety of music not just from one genre. It was like a bedtime melody called: "Blue hours - chapter 19 - emancipation" And for the other production Ident we used a bang noise which was already downloaded on to the mac sound effects to when the initals TNJ show on screen. Like bang in your face.

Going against normal films with the titles. In my group, we decided that we wanted our film title to appear at the very end of our opening sequence when the film characters come across each other for the first time in the lift. I believe this creates mystery and a sense of the unexpected as the audience are unaware of the elements that will come across, it keeps them in suspense and like any normal film it will keep them hooked on in wanting to watch more of it.

example of actual films that have done this are:

"NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE"

Therefore we decided we would like ours to be some what similar thats why we chose to put it in that particular place as it shows the story is beginning at that actual moment.

• Thahmina adding on the title at the end of the opening of the film!

FINALLY WE HAVE FINISHED!! :)