Main Task Editing: Update 11

In today's lesson our teacher gave us feedback on our opening title sequence. Here is the feedback:

• Play the opening title sequence to other people adults and students to see what they think of the Opening title sequence and get there feedback.
• To put something at the beginning and at the end of the Opening titles. Perhaps a picture which will fade at the end.
• Take out name at the end *Jordon Park*, as it confuses the audience, and serves no purpose.
• More distortion at the end.

We will apply this to our footage and get more feedback.

Group Update

We aim to have the post-production stage of the opening title sequence completed by Friday 4th March 2011.

Half Term

In half term we spoke to the members of the group to discuss the issue of the footage that we could not use.

As a group we decided that the opening title sequence was better without the footage, so we have decided we are not going to re-shot this footage. This means we will have more time in the post-production stage, which should be reflected in the quality of our work.

Main Task Editing: Update 10

After the lesson I took home the footage on a memory stick to attempt to convert the footage, so our editing software would support the footage, as the computers at school did not allow me to download the converting software.

Unfortunately, the converting did not work, so this footage was useless. We will discuss as a group whether we will re-shoot the footage again or leave it as it is.

Group Update

It is now coming up to the half term break. This means that the production of our opening title sequence will have to go hold for a week, as the only place we can use the editing software is in college.


We have managed to complete the filming, capturing and nearly completed editing. After the half term week off we will be finalizing the Main Task, before moving on to the evaluation process.

Main Task Editing: Update 9

Today we filmed the shots mentioned in the previous blog entry. The filming process went well and we were finished quickly and efficiently.

However, when capturing the footage, we encountered a problem. Before filming, we had forgotten to format the memory card we were recording on to. This meant that the footage saved in a '.Mod' format, rather than the usual '.avi' format. Consequently, the editing software we were using could not support the files, meaning we could not use them. But, we should be able to convert the files, using simple video converting software.We will try this and if it does not work then we will have to re-shoot the shots again. Hopefully, it will not come to this.

Main Task Editing: Update 8

We had emailed about booking a location for the filming prior to this lesson, however, it was not available until the next lesson, so to make good use of our time, we spent the lesson ensuring our blogs, were completely up to date, and to the best quality, also we went back over the footage to ensure what we had done so far was the best it could be.

In the next lesson we will film the seqences and then edit them back in if time allows.

Main Task Editing: Update 7

We have today finished the editing the opening title sequence from the previous feedback, however, another of the suggestions was that the one of the shots we had used (where a torch light flashed over one of the credits) was very popular, and it was suggested that we use this technique more. So, for the credits where it was just writing on a blank screen, we decided we were going to use this technique.

This meant that we would have to do more filming. So we would have to book a location and equipment again. We have emailed about booking a room and equipment, so we will begin filming again when we hear back.

Main Task Editing: Update 6

We have now finished putting the sound to our opening title sequence. This means we have now got a rough cut of our final opening title sequence.This is the feedback we received:

• No lower case on the ‘C’ in TC Studios
• More distortion on the TC Studios
• Production Designer on one line
• Costume by to be changed to costume designer and on one line
• No ‘by’ in the title for visual effects
• Story By on one line
• Written by on one line

Main Task Editing: Update 5

For our backing track, we needed to edit the track that we had chosen. We first had to make the music fit to the opening title sequence. There were parts in our opening title sequence that we wanted to stand out, and have a striking effect, this meant that we had to cut the music in certain places and the match them up again to make the music flow.


This was particularly hard, which means that it would take a long time to do. However, once we have done this, we will have a rough cut of our opening title sequence. We will get feedback on this to see if there is anyway we can improve it.

Main Task Editing: Update 4

The brief states that we cannot use copyright material in our opening title sequence; we chose to get our music from the copyright free and royalty free website, 'sounddogs.com'. We similarly used this website for the sound in our preliminary task.

We only needed to get two pieces of sound for the opening title sequence; the main background music and a sound affect to go with one of our shots. Because we knew exactly what we were looking for for this piece of music, we started by looking for this, which we found easily.

We decided to go with the following backing track:
http://tcasmedia.podbean.com/mf/web/vnntch/Sequence01.avi

Main Task Editing: Update 3

I was not in the lesson today, due to illness, so the rest of the group continued as planned on finding the audio for the opening title sequence. However, to combat this, we conducted the lesson over the phone. The rest of the group found two potential pieces of backing music;
http://tcasmedia.podbean.com/mf/web/hn9bb4/483603_SOUNDDOGS__mo.mp3

http://tcasmedia.podbean.com/mf/web/ii5ctz/483604_SOUNDDOGS__mo.mp3

The first track is over 4 minutes in legth, so if we choose this one we will cut it down to fit the audio length.

Main Task Editing: Update 2

When we got feedback for the typography, we found out that where we had a limited range of fonts available, we could not find one that created the desired affect. The feedback was that the font look slightly child like, and suited a comedy genre.


We have since changed the font to a more serious font; such as the font used in the opening title sequence of 'Sleuth'. The feedback from this was all positive, consequently we have chosen to stick with this font.


Other effects we chose to add to the font were a fading effect, which we kept the same all the way through, to reinforce the impact. Furthermore, we have also made the name bigger than the persons title as it creates a more striking effect.


We will now look at the sound for our opening title sequence.

Main Task Editing: Update

We have now completed the cutting together of the shots for our title sequence. We have now moved on to adding the credits to the sequence. This will take a lot more time than the cutting part of the editing process as we have to manually write in each, one adding fade affects and timing them so they stay over the shots.

After each attempt we will ask for feedback on them, specifically the typography, so we can make changes. For our first attempt, we have tried to create the text so it looks similar to the typography in the film, 'Se7en'.

Main Task: Editing

We had already completed quite a few frames of our opening title sequence, so we now had to begin fill in the gaps with our new footage. But first we had to pick through our footage as a group to decide what we wanted to put in.We had already completed quite a few frames of our opening title sequence, so we now had to begin fill in the gaps with our new footage. But first we had to pick through our footage as a group to decide what we wanted to put in.


Once we had done this, we just had to focus on cutting together the shots to create a good sequence.


Once we have put together the shots, we will focus on adding the opening titles to the sequence. Then we will move on the sound.


We feel the cutting should not take too long, as it is the easiest part of the editing process.

Group Update

Working in a group can be difficult at times as everything we do as an individual can have an affect on the groups moral levels, and this can result in work of a poor standard. Absences and lack of enthusiasm can affect the ending result which then causes frustration.

As a group I feel we have suffered from this. However, we now feel as a group that we have over come this, and can now continue with the editing, to produce a good quality opening title sequence.