Editing 2

Editing was one the things we struggled with as a whole group. But editing is one of the most important parts in a production of a title sequence as it brings your whole title sequence together. So after getting familiar with both premiere pro and after affects we managed to get the hang of it. We still had several things to do including,

• Effects
• Title credits
• Ident
• Distribution company
• Colour Correction, Lightening  
• Soundscape
• Match cuts

With editing it was a matter of trial and error as none of us had any editing experience other then AS media and we was all new to the programme. But working together as a group really helped excel our understanding and allowed us to explore premiere pro and after effects. All of our individual inputs allowed us to get creative ideas and see things from different point of views.

1. Cutting- When you finish filming all your scenes and you have all your footage the first thing you would do on Premiere pro is put them all together. You'll start cutting your footage and placing them all together so you have all your titles in order. As we made a detailed story board and shot list we found this particular easy to do as we just had to follow it. This allowed us to see any imperfections and what we had to re shoot and fix up. It gave us a rough idea of how our title sequence would look like.

2. Idents- Creating our ident was one of the first things we did as it should appear at the start of the a title sequence. We used after effects in order to do this and used a simple effect which gets our point across.

According to the codes and conventions of a title sequence the distribution company should come next after the Production Ident which is what we did next

This consisted of the same concept of making a production ident so wasn't difficult at all. After doing these a number of time it become no struggle at all.

3. Sound- Creating a Soundscape for our title sequence went well for us. We used a mixture of digetic and non diegetic sounds to create the most realistic out come possible. As well as including the original back ground sound from filming we had our instrumental music and a low drone sound effect both run through the entire title sequence. At times we increased the volume to heighten certain emotions from the audience and build suspense and vice versa, decreasing the volume as well. The low drone complimented the title sequence. We used the fade effect to have a nice slow build up of the music and a fade out to create a nice effect. We had sound effects at certain places to compliment the title sequence such as the iPhone text message sounds when a message poped up on the screen, a low steady heartbeat at certain scenes, and much more. Personally, i found sound too be the easiest aspect in editing.
          

4. Effects- The main thing we struggled with when editing was applying different effects. This where things started to get complicated as we had to apply key frames and experiment between the effects. But we managed to get the hang of it. Our first scene is mainly done in after effects as the text bubbles considered some work. We first got the image and edited in in photoshop the placing it on top of our footage on after effects. After looking at in now i would say we should've spent more time on photoshop making the text bubble look more realistic. We included some subtle effects throughout our title sequences like fade ins and fade outs to compliment it.

5. Colour Correction- Some of our scenes we filmed when it was dark to get more spinster and mysterious effect which was great but was too dark that you couldn't see the actors facial expression when she gets grabbed from behind. This was an important factor as you can see the shock and fear in the characters face which we wanted to get across to the audience, so to be able to see her facial expression was key. Thus, we had to make them scenes lighter increasing its lightening and contrast. This complimented the film and made a huge difference. In order to make all the scenes flow we had to colour correct lighter scenes and darker scenes so that they look more realistic as if it all happened in the same day.

The main thing that helped us when we struggled with editing was video tutorials or the media technicians during workshops. Both broke down what to do step by step helping us understand it much more. Overall, compared to how we was at the start we've all improved our editing massively. If only we had these skills had the start, eh.