Day 4 of Editing part 1 (post feedback)

After reading through the feedback sheet we received, as a group, we noticed that we were aware of the majority of features that still needed some fine tuning, and editing, which was reassuring as it meant that we were on track to completing our opening title sequence.

For the rest of the editing sessions in lesson we decided that we would edit as a group, whilst switching chairs half way through the lesson to ensure that each of us got an even amount of time to edit. This was beneficial as it meant that while two people were concentrating on editing specific shots and clips, the other two people could look out for any inconsistencies or mistakes made, that went unnoticed by the two active editors. This will hopefully result in a more refined, higher quality final product.

To begin with, Sam Warren and I edited for the first half hour and James Lawley and James Scott edited for the last. Initially, before doing anything we watched our rough edit title sequence all the way through, to see if we could spot any blatant mistakes or problems. After doing so we noticed that in a few important shots and camera movements the lighting was poor, making it nearly impossible to see what was happening on screen, so to fix this we needed to manipulate the colour ratio in the specified shots, or add a bright filter. We chose to do the former of the two options, after comparing both edits, deciding it looked a lot better and less artificial, making the actions of characters clearly visible on screen.

To accompany our title sequence we added royalty free, non-diegetic music, to build suspense as the victim, is being unknowingly followed, which then changes, after his realization of the danger he is in, to a more fast paced, higher pitched, melodic beat. This was roughly placed along with the ticking clock sound effect. To give the feeling of events gradually escalating, we came up with the idea of the ticking speeding up at key moments, which we accomplished by copy and pasting the same ticking sound file, and editing the speed of it, then placing them at the shots we thought best suited the sound change.

Since there are multiple sound effects throughout the title sequence we still needed to edit the volume of the sounds accordingly to compliment each other. On top of this we also needed to add transitions, the title frames, the viewer discretion sound file along with image, and decide on a suitable font.