12/01/16- Editing, editing and more editing.

Editing, editing and more editing

Today, we had a 2 hour media lesson. With our 'To do' list prepared, we made a start with making some clear progress and being productive with our time. First of all, we decided to continue with adding titles to our opening sequence. As mentioned before, we felt as though this is what our opening sequence was lacking and it was something we were continuing to put off. So, we decided to continue to make amendments to our opening titles first. On reviewing our opening titles, we decided to change the name of our production company, from T I E Productions to Vision Productions. We felt as though this fitted with the eye opening at the very beginning. We then changed Woodfire Images to TIE images. We felt as though both these names were much more professional and better suited for the task in hand. 

The new production company name.

The new image company and different font

We then went on to add the titles throughout the duration of the opening sequence. We used the blog post where we had pre-planned the titles, which made adding them much easier. Something my group and I found difficult to agree on, was the font in which the titles should appear. Eventually, we agreed that a sans-serif, white distorted font would look particularly effective, and fit with the thriller genre, for now. This is something we can ask in our audience feedback. We also ensured that each title would appear in the same size, colour and font to make the appearance consistent. As well as this, we decided the best positioning for most of the titles would be the bottom right hand corner.

An example of one of the titles which appear.

After completing our titles, we then went ahead and adjusted some of the sound. This was because we needed to add in the voice recordings of the news reporters and so the non diegetic music needed to be faded in and faded out. After this, the voice recordings of the news reporters could be added. These then had to be inserted into Adobe Premier Pro. After inserting them, we realised that they didn't sound distorted or fuzzy, which was our intention. So, we made each voice recording sound distorted by adding in a fuzzy radio sound over the top of the voice recordings, and then edited them in a programme called 'Adobe Sound Booth'. This way, we could select the 'distorted' option, which gave the effect we were looking for.

The clips of audio can be seen in green.

We then felt we were ready to upload our second draft edit.