Evaluation

Final Piece

Editing

We decided to put our credits over the home video at the end and just have them appear on screen in random places. We tried to get them appearing all over the screen but i only managed to get them to appear at the bottem like a subtitle but all together i think it looked very good. At the end of the opening sequence we had the title 'Charlie's Story' appear over a black screen which finished it off nicely.

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.