Wednesday, 13 March 2013

Production Diary Entry - 13/03/13

Today in class we were finishing our opening sequence ready for the deadline. Luckily for us we only had a few things left to do before we had completely finished and were ready to export.
To start with I finished editing the titles, changing the font to match throughout and adjusting the length of the titles to match each other, as well as adjusting where they were in the sequence, so they looked okay in the clip but were roughly the same length apart.
We then looked at changing the music to make it more dramatic at the end. While we were editing Faye looked on YouTube and found some royalty free music that we could use. We then matched this up to the sequence so that it would fade in where the character 'Evelyn' is left alone and attacked to the end of the sequence where the title of the film appears.
We then asked Michelle to look through our sequence and suggest anything we could improve on. She suggested a few things (post to follow) such as cutting a few of the clips in and making the noise build up in certain places.
Using this advice we cut down some of the action scenes so they appear for a lot less time, which adds to the drama of the sequence. We also added a forest noise track over the first part where 'Amber' walks into the woods and faded the sound out in the clip before to make it flow. We also added some sound effects over the top of the clips where someone sneaks up on 'Amber' and fading it out to trick the audience into thinking something bad is going to happen when it doesn't.



We then recorded us saying things to give it more exposition, explaining why they were there and why she walks off annoyed then added this over the top of the sequence and adjusted the sound levels so it sounded natural.
Our last step was adding in Shani's ident into the beginning of the sequence, which we then added a fade in between the end of the ident and the beginning of the opening so it doesn't jump to suddenly.
After finishing this we played it through, and adjusted the sound slightly in places so it fit and then we had finally finished, ready to upload.

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