walkthrough vlog

here is our vlog with a voice over going through our final piece

Exporting 22/07/16

When editing we realised doing it in 1080p reduced the quality. There were alos problems with the placing of the text needed to be moved upwards. after it was exported in 720p the light switch sound faded so we had to try again.

Editing 17/02/17

During the half term Alisha an Morgan went to the school to hopefully complete the sequence. I was unable to go but they still kept me updated. They were able to fix the problem with the layered audio. There was still a problem with the time of the sequence as it was 1:44 and still needed an added 16 seconds. They came up with and idea to have a blank screen and the audio playing in the background.

Font choices

Not only was the editing a big part of the sequence but the font used for our titles. After searching we downloaded some fonts from 1001fonts.com.
There are many different font types to use with genres such as crime, mystery and thriller.

'Seven'- the font looks handwritten and adds a very mysterious type of atmosphere.

'Gone Girl'- the font is very simple and simplistic but very effective with a thriller genre.

'Shutter Island'- the font for the title is also very simple but the top of the letters fade into the black background making it spooky or mysterious

Editing 01/02/17

We tried to add the witness statements from Alisha an Morgan but we couldn't add it whilst the orchestral music was already there. After searching our problem we had one soloution which was to make the openening with out the voice overs and create a new project. We would then layer the voice over audio on top of our sequence, this was our only soloution even tho it may decrease the quality.

We then edited some sound issues on the found footage that was placed throughout the opening as some clips we very harsh with sound and cut halfway through a sentence making it sharp. The ending also had some sound from the camera moving which needed to be cut out. Morgan suggested that we made the light switch louder to add more suspense, however we couldn't achieve it as just the click couldn't be cut and enhanced. Alisha then has a new idea to select the sound waves from the click and increase the sound to 180%.

We asked miss foster to help us with adding the audio over the orchestral music. By dragging the audio over to specific parts it was able to work, but the sound didn't match up the way it did before. We had also lost 10 seconds of footage randomly. It used to be quiet as the phone rang but now it isn't

Editing 25/01/16

this message popped up on our screens and we dint know what to do so we ignored it. when we went back to edit, none of our changes had saved, so we had to redo them. luckily Morgan kept track of what we had done.

After that Morgan and Alisha went to record their voice overs.

Editing 20/01/17

We uploaded the clips of us in the park. There was about 15 minutes of footage which was a lot but it gave us a good range of different clips to use since we only 10-30 seconds of park footage. Each clip would come after a piece of important evidence. There were clips placed in between long shots to break them up as well. We kept the audio on the park footage but turned it down so that I wasn't too loud. Although the clips were 3-2 seconds long we couldn't completely mute the clips or add any sound over them as it would take away them main focus which is how they are having fun. We then started editing parts such as the long pan of the pin board. We cut pictures that were too dark and drew too much attention to them and blanks spaces of the pin board

We had reached 1:55 minutes of footage before we saw that there was one scene where the detective is just looking at the missing poster, turning and flipping it before pinning it on the board. We cut 7 seconds out of that clip as I was too long and unnatural.

We the realised that the transition between the first and second clip sounded weird. After analysing it we could hear something choppy which wasn't in the rough edit that Morgan made. She has used a different clip of him sitting on the chair however we didn't want to change ours as he moved restlessly showing how long he has been awake on this case. Alisha finally realised that if she cut 1 second of the end of the first clip and the start of the second clip it would sound natural.

After editing it all, we had only reached 1:43 minutes. We added more clips but Morgan said that they didn't fit and looked out of place. We then had to slow down some of the clips so that it would put the time up to 1:51.

Editing

Wednesday 18th January we began to edit our title sequence on i movie. we went through each bit of footage and only selected the best shots of each scene as we filmed each one more than once, we also added music which was found by Morgan. we still hadn't added our found footage to the sequence, but we left spaces to add it.