Editing session 8

During today me and my group went back to the IMacs to continue editing on Final Cut Pro, we did this during lunch time for around half an hour and we spent one hour of editing after school. So we watched our sequence over again and then came up with some new ways to improve our trailer sequence. During this editing shot we altered our order of shots and we are happy with the order that they're in. Today we also added text which was our quote to our sequence, and then we started to input our transitions into our trailer sequence. Then we started the colour matching process of some of our shots. This was to ensure we represented continuity as some of the shots were filmed in either different lighting and different days so they didn't look exactly the same so we started to alter this. 

Here is a representation of what our current timeline looks like on Final Cut Pro. This image represents and shows the length of our shots and the high and low pitch sound that is used within each shot type.

Here is a close up shot of the montage and as you can see from the image the shots are very short and concise, I got my inspiration for this from 'You're Next' trailer and in the 'You're Next' trailer they used quick and snappy shots and this worked effectively so this is what we tried to do.  When watching the trailer it built up anticipation and this is the effect I wanted to create. Also in this image you can see the transition that we are currently thinking abut using and this is called a 'simple blur'. 

Here is an image of the text we are going to use and this text is known as 'Reflection' and then I altered with the size of the text and whether or not to have a glow. I tired putting a glow however we and my group didn't think it was effective for the atmosphere we were trying to create. So in the end I created a slight shadow of the text so that is was simple but not to simple as we don't want to much going on for the text, we want it to be straight to the point. 

Here I am going through all the different fonts that can be used on Final Cut Pro. Then we and my group suggested a few that we liked and then we eventually agreed on 'Iowan Old Style' for the front and 'Reflection' was the style of font you wanted to base it on and this was the one that altered it slightly as we didn't like 'Reflection' on its own.

Here we have the montage before we have added any text to it; we decided that is needed something else to make it more interesting and make the audience concentrate more on it. But we didn't know what would grab the audience so we decided to come back to this so that we were not wasting time thinking when we had other bits of work to do of the editing process. 

This is the montage with text incorporated into it a little bit before and then afterwards. So I suggest adding a little before the montage, however we didn't like the way this looked so we had an ‘Apologies don’t mean anything’ before the montage. Then later we had ‘If you keep doing’ also before the montage. Then the rest of the quote was individually separated before the shots within the montage. The individual words were ‘What you’re sorry for’. This looked much more effective and we felt that we concentrated more on the montage and it made us want to watch it to find out what we the audience were being told. 

Here is an extreme close up shot of an eye, which I had to use the transform tool on Final Cut Pro to do, this was because the shot was landscape and it would disrupt continuity so we had to make it completely fit the screen so I pressed transform and pulled the corner of the shot to stretch the shot to fit the screen. Me and my group looked through the transitions, and then I added a transition in because without it, it didn't look right so I added a transitions to encourage more continuity throughout.

Then we have images that we have colour matched, this was so we have more continuity throughout our trailer. I colour matched the fight scene to the footage of the antagonist jumping up at the window in the door. And then I also colour matched the footage of the character Elliot about to be stabbed using a phallic symbol, and I colour matched this to the fight scene between Delaney and Maddie as me and my group thought that the colour was effective as many shadows were created and it kept with continuity. 

Here we have a shot of Maddie doing her make up in the mirror and the antagonist Delaney appearing in the mirror. However originally you watch Delaney walked to that position, however I didn't think it looked effective or even scary. So then I suggest we tried jump cutting it so she appears unexpectedly and this will make it more intense. So I used the blade to remove the part where Delaney moves into the shot, so one minute it’s just the protagonist Maddie in the shot and then the antagonist appears out of no-where which adds more anticipation as we don’t know what’s going to happen. It looked more effective once I had created this jump cut and my group also liked it so I decided to keep it. 

Then we have our ending to our trailer sequence, so I said putting the shot of the antagonists walking up the path after the montage could be effective because it suggests to the audience they’re coming. And then I added a transition as our title will be coming after these two shots. But later on we decided we may not use these shots and we may use a ‘Sting’ instead, to make the audience more afraid. 

According to the dictionary a ‘Sting’ is used to introduce a regular section of a show, indicate the end of a scene, or indicate that a dramatic climax is coming.