Final Editing

After getting our feedback, we went back and tried to change some little things in our opening to make them that little bit better. The first problem was my voice in the dialogue, we cleverly thought chloes pitch in her voice would suit our genre much better, so straight away i got her to re-record over my speech. This worked very well. The next cristism we got was that some parts of our opening were 'over edited' we decided to tone tone the editing and make it look more natural, we then showed it to a few peers, and the response was much better. We connected all of our digetic and non-digetic sounds to our opening, and together it looks so effective, and very professional. We then worked on making the credits look more realistic in a film, and also evenly set them out, as two names came up quicker and more rapidly than the other two. But overall we are all very proud of our progress as a group, and have had a lot of fun filming an editing this opening.

Some problems we faced throughout this project

Throughout this whole project, me and my group have faced various problems that we had to sort out.

• We started out quite slowly as i think we were all quite nervous to work amongst people we wernt so close to. After we put that all behind us, we actually all got on really well, and then found it much easier to start working.
• The next thing that slowed us down was the fact that all four of us lived quite far from eachother, so it was difficult to meet for filming. We decided to film mainly at Jessicas house, as this seemed the easiest for us all.
• After filming all quite well, we had to begin editing, Jess and Chloe wernt in for a lesson when we learnt how to edit on the software so Efosa decided to go through it with them, this caused us to be a lesson behind our class, but we soon caught up
• The last thing we needed to fix, was that after we got our feedback from the class after the showcase, our teacher informed us that the dialogue that i infact say, didnt fit the genre of the film, as my voice is quite high and not eery. We decided chloes voice would fit the genre better, so she re-recorded my dialogue, and it now looks much better!

A Rough Version of our Opening Sequence

Here is a rough version of what our Opening looks like so far, We are at the stage were we are tweeking little areas that arent tidy, and really focusing on getting all the sounds completed and exported. Miss explained to us that the dialogue used in this sequence kind of made our genre go off balance, so we decided to re-record that bit of dialogue. My voice didnt seem to fit the horror genre to well, so chloe decided to have a go, and her voice definatly connects more to the genre than mine, which has really improved the whole sequence.

Recent Progress

We can finally see an effective opening coming along, and it actually looks very good. The acting and camera shots are spot on and the editing is looking really effective. we still need to convert our voiceovers and backing sounds to complete our opening, but as a group we are very happy with our progress so far, and look forward to seeing the finished sequence.

We then decided to think of a production name and logo for our opening. I decided to do a mindmap of all my own ideas and then would show my group to see what they thought and mix together our ideas.
Together we all decided our top 5 production names were:

• lightbulb productions
• newhouse productions
• wonkey donkey productions
• transform productions
• lighthouse productions

Together we decided that 'Lightbulb Productions' sounded the most professional, and the logo was much easier to make it stand out. Efosa added together our logo and production name onto a black screen and edited it in to the beginning of our opening. It actually stood out for me, looked very effective and professional, and worked well with the theme and genre our film uses.

Further Editing and Media Film Showcase

Before showing an audience our progress for our opening sequence, as a group we tried to neaten some of the shots up and add in some last minute effects to make the sequence that much better. Still by using final cut, we faded in some of the cuts and also added in the credits showing who starred and directed etc our film.
We then carried on working on GarageBand to mix together some sounds and music that fit our film genre. We decided that a music box track would make the film sound eery. We aren't fully satisfied with our sounds yet, so are still working on them before we add them into our opening.

We then decided as a class to show an audience our work so far to get some feedback on our opening sequence so we can go back and improve to make our work even better.

Editing

We began editing in our last media lesson, and firstly we struggled to get to grips with the new program 'Final cut.' Together we managed to get all the shots cut down to the right length and started putting them in order. We then found a different editing program 'i-movie HD' which we found so much easier to use and to edit our sequence! We began browsing the program looking at what editing techniques it has to offer. We looked at music which we would use in the backing and also looked at some non-digetic

We are currently editing the opening sequence of our horror opening. It is coming on really well, and all the shots gel together well. we have slowed down many of the shots to make it look more effective, and added colours to make the picture stand out.

We then had a browse through GarageBand to look for some eery music to use in the sequence.

Sounds

• We have been working really hard on a software caled 'Garageband'. On this site, we can merge sounds together and create the eery music that connects to our genre for our Opening Sequence. 
• I thought of the idea of a music box, as it uses the same affect as we have in our shot, looks normal but if you listen carefully theres something not quite right about it, and its actually effectivly creepy.
• We then had to re-record the dialogue to make it clearer, and we also had to change my voice to chloes, as my voice didnt exactly fit the genre of our film.
• We then discovered some problems with a sound which appeared in the middle of our opening, which sounded like a squeaky bad connection. So we cleverly covered that up, and added some other sounds to make the setting look and feel more natural.
• We then had to export these sounds onto our editing station before merging it with our opening, and making sure the voice-over of chloes voice that covered mine, was lip-synced carefully.

My groups Planning And filming For our 'Opening Sequence'

The last few weeks me and my group have been working through planning and filming of our own opening sequence. To plan this, we all separately came up with storyboards, which in conclusion we all combined together to get our final storyboard idea. We all had ideas within the horror genre, so it was fairly easy to combine our work. I believe we all had our fair opinions into the ideas for our final storyboard.

 After a slow start, and a lot of planning, we met at one of the group members house to look at setting and props for filming. Once we believed we had the perfect set we began filming were me and a fellow member were the two main characters. We worked well together and followed the storyboard as our director told us to. We began filming in Jess' bedroom, on to the living room and then completed that scene in her garage. I really enjoyed filming this, as i believe the storyboard would have a good outcome, so tried hard whilst acting alongside my friends.

The final story  involves me capturing Jess and being in connection with a physic man played by efosa. The vibe of the film opening is very unusal and physcotic. E.g. when the makeup is being applied, this will make the audience ask themselves questions as to why things are happening. Chloe filmed and helped give us directions whilst filming, as we struggled to get things to look correct at the start. We noticed what setting would look more realistic and worked on changing things to make it better.