Editing

At the end we wanted to put an effect on to make it look as if it was a home video. We originally wanted to put a recording screen over the top of the footage to make it look as if it was recording but on iMovie there was a very good aged film effect which we both liked and so decided to put that over it instead and personally i think it looks more effective.

Sound and Music

We decided to have a sad sound track playing over alot of our opening sequence to set the mood and so that it wasnt silent the whole time. Ashley was incharge of sorting out the sound track and she did very well as it fits our story perfectly.
We also put a voice over part of it to move the narrative alot and to creat enigma. I recorded this voice clip on Garage Band. It was quite easy to but we had to redo it a couple of times if one of us want happy with it. When it was finished it sounded very good as it had lots of emotion and the pauses between each sentence was spot on.

Editing

After everything was in the right order we wanted to add transactions between cuts eg. fades and wipes. This again was easier then i imagined as all we had to do was drag which ever transaction we wanted into where we wanted it in the time line. These made a big difference to our flash back as it made it more obvious and more interesting for the audience.

Show Case

This was our first working model of our opening sequence. We still had a lot of work to do before our film was finished but this gave everyone a rough idea of how our film was going to look. We showed this to the class to get some audience feed back to our work. The feed back we got back was very helpfull and gave a few ideas to make sure our film was the best we could make it. From doing this it made us realise how much work we needed to do to make sure the narritve was clear and to make it look like an actual opening sequence. Because i know what the film is about i understand it but as we found out from our audiences replies, it was not made clear enough. Also we need to add a voice over which helps explain the narrative, a sound track to set the mood of the film and a flash back which she has every morning of the night when Charlie dies.

Problems During Filming

We had started our filming with Harriot and James as the main characters. But when we next planned to film our media work James was very ill and was unable to come and film so we had to completely change our film from being a story of a wife who'd lost their husband, we made it a sister who had lost their big sister. This did not make many changed to our film apart from the dialogue had to me different and also the voice over. Once we had filmed our new footage we realised the lighting was better then our old fottage anyway so overall it was probably a good thing that this happed now rather then when we were nearly finished.

Editing

Apart from the preliminary exercise i had never used iMovie or any other editing station before so at first i was very slow. We did get shown how to edit our footage but we got shown how to on Final Cut but because of lack of equipment at school, we were unable to use this. After i was shown how to cut parts of the footage out and move them around it was very easy so i was able to get a rough idea of the order i wanted the clips in.

Problems During Filming

We filmed most of footage but when we uploaded it onto the computer so we could edit it, the lighting was very dark and we could not use this. We also had a bit of trouble at the beginning of the with our group as we split off into a different group which has made us rushed for time. We are planning to film all of our footage this weekend so we will be ready to edit next week and will have out opening sequence done for the dealine.