17/12/2015

Editing and creating the titles 



Here I can be seen creating one of the opening titles, with
an image of our friend's eye.

Today, my group and I continued to edit our opening thriller sequence. To be more efficient with our time, Izzy continued to edit the footage, cutting out parts which each of our audience survey's suggested. This way, we managed to cut almost 2 minutes of footage, and so hopefully next lesson we can continue to compress the time. We also helped Izzy decide where the flashbacks should appear and the effects that should go with them. As well as this, we came to a decision as a group, that the dialogue at the end of the sequence should be cut in order to add more suspense and tension for the audience. Then, Tammy and I decided that we should look for copyright free sound which would be appropriate for certain scenes in our opening sequence, for example a shower sound, and a doorbell were just some of the sounds we researched. We also found some non diegetic music which is eerie to go over the top of the footage, in order to add suspense and add to the narrative enigma. When we found the appropriate dialogue, Izzy then started to add the sound to the footage to check that it would fit with the atmosphere. We did this by transferring the sound over a memory stick.

 

The eye we took a photo of.

Then, during the second our of our lesson, we decided to start using the software 'Adobe after effects' to create our opening titles. We had already decided that for our production company, we wanted to have an eye to represent the 'brand'. So, we went ahead and started to research GIFs and images of eyes. We thought that it would look really effective to have a GIF, but we were then informed that we were likely to gain more marks if we were to create our own, or use our own image. So, we then went ahead and asked our friend to come into the studio with us so we could use the lighting to get a high quality photo of her eye. Ideally, we would like our opening titles, displaying the name of the production company to appear over the eye.