Editing our final sequence

Editng our title sequence

I was so lucky to be back from South Africa in time for the editing afer being stuck there for so long. In order to make up for my time away I tried to get very invloved in the editing process. 

Otto already had experience in editing and he helped teach me how to get efficient with the editing tools. Bea kind of took the role of director giving her opinion and direction of how our editing looked. Otto acted as a tutor for Mia and I and helped us learn how to use everything.

I had experience with editing from the previous editing workshops so I was able to get stuck in straight away as I knew my way around the bin and rushes. First we changed the names of some of the rushes so they were easily found for when we needed them. Otto taught me shortcuts for certain tools like to cut clips you could use comd. c on the Macbook Pro. I also learned how to stretch the timeline to be more accurate when cutting and moving clips together. This esspecially helped when it came to lining up some of the shots to the beat of the music.  

At the start of the sequence I cut the clips of the romantic scene and the exorcism one quite close together so the editing was relatively fast paced which helps the audience get sucked into the narrative straight away. Whereas right at the end I put the longer shots of the girls all together which creates a sense of suspension that works well with the sudden cut to the last shot of the girl looking terrified.

Our final sequence differed quite a lot to our original shot by shot and story board because we had to work with the material we could obtain from the shoot day and equally as we experiemented with the editing we found that some things didn't work well such as the 'I love you' we were planning to have at the end didn't look right and we couldn't get the sound to how we had pictured it so we adapted our plan. We also took out the flicker of shots because Tom and Adam suggested that it would make it look too much like a trailer and we wanted to avoid that and stick to the brief of an opening title sequence. I think I still would have liked to add the flicker of lots of shots really quickly editied together becuase it would have provided a challenge that I would have liked to undertake but that isn't how things turned out and I am still very happy with how it turned out.

When it came to the titles I wanted something simple that didn't distract from the actual sequence. For the title of the film I picked a font that resembles that of an old fashioned cinema from the 80s to make that connection to the time our sequence is set in. I never placed any of the titles in the centre apart from the 'directed by tom moore' and the title of the film because I as mentioned I didn't want to distract from the narrative, so the only ones that went in the centre were the important ones. We all agreed that it would be best to put the titles in any place that had empty space in so they didn't interfere.