Just another editing session

Today in our media lesson we spent most of the morning editing our film opening. We were trying to edit our credits which I previously mentioned by changing them and using fonts from an online website so that it reflects our content better.

We saw many that we liked and thought they would reflect our film as they looked contemporary, but when we typed in the name of our film for the font we wanted and overlapped it onto our clip it did not look as good as we expected so we decided to stay with the imovie version.




My group are currently undecided between two clips we want to appear after Elle is running in the car park. One of them is an extreme close up shot of the music box with the ballet dancer spinning which we inserted at the beginnning. We edited this shot by changing the effect into 'old world', 'glow', 'dream' and probably every single effect on imovie but me and Elle still felt it was repeating the shot of the music box a bit too much.

We also used an effect where the background was blurred and the dancer was in focus and we slowed the clip down. The slow motion, blurred and glow effect together with the extravagant font I felt looked slightly over the top and rather tacky.

So me and Elle like it where there was a plain black screen and the credits come up which look very contemporary and it has a hand written effect which is relevant to our film as it is telling a story. We feel that the use of the black background is plain yet far more effective than an over thought clip which Emma and Sophie seem to like better.

We could not agree on one as a group so we decided to gather our media class together and ask them for their views but this did not really help us very much as this resulted in a split decision. We are still currently undecided but hopefully we will choose mine and Elle's option !

Following from 'the undecided clip' we inserted a clip which we all agreed on. It was a clip which we included in the fast transition shots right at the start but seen as they are so fast we felt this powerful clip was not used to its best so we included it right at the end as the last shot.

It is a clip of Billy looking directly at the camera and pulling his hood up, we slowed the clip down and adjusted the conrast and lighting to make it appear scarier to audience as it is the last shot and should leave them feeling slightly scared and on a cliffhanger.