Now that we had all our footage all that was left to do was edit it together. The following is a brief description of what we did in the lessons following the shoot.
Post Film Lesson One
We began by looking over our footage and importing it into Final Cut Pro. We started to roughly edit the clips in order to create a basic time line of what we wanted it to look like. There were a few gaps left where we wanted titles or sound effects to go but apart from that we got a good chunk done this lesson. We were surprised how quickly it all came together, although of course it needed finer editing.
Post Film Lesson Two
We finished the basic edit in this lesson and began looking for music to add. We spent a long time on royalty free websites picking some downbeat jazz and an accurate siren sound effect. However, we found when we imported these into Final Cut Pro it rejected them and would not play them on our time line. We found out that we had to convert them to an .aiff file type instead of an .mp3. We used Adobe Soundbooth to do this. Once our music and sound effect was in place we listened to the completed audio and realised at some points it was hard to hear what the characters were saying. We thought recording their parts and dubbing them over would be easier that re-shooting the entire opening so went and recorded that at the end of the lesson. We used Logic Pro to edit the sound and imported it into Final Cut Pro. We began placing the sound in the time line.
Post Film Lesson Three
We perfected the dubbing in this lesson and whilst listening to the audio we realised some of the voice over we had recorded was a little quiet. We re-recorded this in the same way as we recorded the other voice over/dubbing and imported it into the time line. We tweaked the audio and added cross fades in order to get a smoother sound from clip to clip. We began adding titles and came up with the idea of filming the diamond glittering in the light and the titles on their own looked a little boring. We based this idea on the opening of the children's tv show The Queen's Nose. This can be seen below:
Post Film Lesson Four
We edited the diamond in the light sequence at the start of this lesson and refined the titles to be sure they looked exactly as we wanted them too. After going over the edit a few times to be sure we hadn't missed anything we exported the final opening as a Quick Time movie. We then screened it to the rest of the class and received feed back.
Post Film Lesson Five
This was our last lesson where we just tweaked a few things people had brought up at the screening. We created our company logos using Motion and Photoshop and added them to the start of the opening and took a few more screen caps to put on our blogs. For the second half of the lesson we talked as a group about how we would go about creating our group evaluation. We split the seven evaluation questions into groups and decided how would be best to explain them. We decided on creating two Prezis, two Xtranormal pieces and a video/audio to go with our opening in the style of a DVD extra. We split these amongst us all so that each group member would take charge of writing up the groups' answer to a certain evaluation question or questions. We arranged a way of communicating in case any one ran into trouble. We decided to film the video piece next week and edit it in time for the coursework deadline.
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