Wednesday 25 February 2009

Thriler Film - Editing Process

After we finally finished our filming, we uploaded it to our set computer and started to edit.
We firstly cut out all the mis-haps during filming, and were left with 1 or 2 best versions of each shot. We decided which version to use throughout all of them, and started to peice it all together, getting it in the right order that we needed.
After we had done this, we started to add titles. We had wanted to make the titles come in as in someone was typing them, however we did no know how to do this without wasting valuble time. So instead, we sorted through the effects given, and chose to make it "curtain" in and out, similar to what we had in mind. The font was "Courier" and in bold, and the colour was white. This was because it looked like a typwriter, and the bold and white made it stand out more, making it easier to read on the film background. We used the same font for the end title "The Wrong Move" though it was bigger, centered, and didn't have any effects coming in or out. We edited in the gun shot to go when the title showed, as this meant the audience didn't see who got shot and who did the shooting.
At the time of editing and rendering, and uploading to youtube, we didn't know Jakob's candidate number, so we left it as "0000". It will be added in under the blog when we upload it.
When we had finally created the start title, end title, and the actors and production company title's (the production company was "JRC" standing for Jakob, Roxxy and Caroline) we decided to upload it to youtube.
However, we found the edited footage to be 3 minutes and 44 seconds, which was too long for our project. We went back to our computer after half term to shorten it down. This proved to be harder than it sounds. We cut out a whole shot of Jakob and Ben (Simon & Gang Leader) talking next to the house, as the next shot was pretty similar. We cut shots down to make them shorter, and sped up some slow ones, and finally got the footage down to 2minutes (and 5 seconds for the starter title). This actually made our film look better, and we all thought it was better than the longer one. This was because the shots were shorter and faster cut, making our film more fast paced, allowing the audience to be more drawn in to the action.
However, just before we got it down to 2mins 5secs, we had 1 second left to cut out, and the computer we were working on froze, and wouldn't let us edit any more. Luckily, the program we were using had auto save, and had saved about 10 minutes before, leaving us with only 9 seconds to still edit out, which was extremely good news to us.
After we had completely finished editing, we uploaded the new and improved version onto youtube, where we found the gunshot had not been included. However, aparently this doesn't matter as the examiners will receive our film on a disk, from the avi file we have saved onto the computer, which has the gunshot in it.

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