Deadlines, Continuity and Extras
By the end of this we had everything pretty much finished with the exception of a few titles and an ident. After searching Google Images for a record effect we realised there was one in final cut, which looked a lot more professional than the ones we found so we decided to use that instead. We found an instrumental song on youtube to play over the back on the final part of our sequence, although for our final cut we're considering changing this to be more dramatic. We added a filter over the whole sequence to make it look darker and colder, which goes well with the conventions of a thriller.
We were then ready to show our rough cut to our class.
A more detailed post of the audience feedback is on my blog but the overall view is they liked it, but we needed to add titles, tighten up the sound and make a few things clearer. They seemed to like the variety in shots, which was good because that was one of the things we tried hard to get while filming.
After our feedback we started to edit again, adding the title of the film at the end and starting to add in titles over the beach scene. We also decided to change our idea of the title sequence (post to follow).
In the next lesson we will continue editing and adding in the things that our audience said to improve on, such as more tension and in general just getting the continuity a lot tighter, as we only just realised that one of the extras took their coat off in between takes.
Judging by the amount of stuff we have left to do as long as we stay focussed and deligate the tasks between the group we should be able to get our opening sequence finished by next wednesday (the deadline for the final cut).
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