Editing

Editing our first draft...

To edit our footage and produce the opening sequence we used the Adobe Premiere Pro software. We then sat and worked out the order of the film clips and separated the main footage from the short shots that we decided we would show quickly like crime scene photos. Next we imported all the footage and added it in order to the time line. We then went back through the short shots and added these in the correct places to the time line and discarded some as we felt that the footage wasn't clear enough, especially as a few clips were out of focus.

We then began adding effects and changing the duration of certain clips. First Charlotte T added a zoom to the door clip which we placed at the start of the sequence to make it appear as though the camera was going closer towards the door and allowing us to show it open by itself more clearly. We then took it in turns to add effects to the footage and change the speed/duration of certain clips. Towards the end of this first meeting we agreed that the sequence was too complicated for the opening to a film and wasn't working well. We therefore decided to delete what we had done so far except the door clip with the zoom and began to look at other ideas as to how we could still create a good opening sequence with the footage. We also sat and brainstormed our ideas on the titles and possible film company names and logos we could have at the start. Charlotte T then used Microsoft Paint to create the film company names and logos.

On out second meeting, the group sat together and shared ideas on the sequence and Katie then put the clips in order on the time line, added some effects and played around with the speed/duration of the footage to see what worked and what didn't. Both Charlotte T and Charlotte H spent time finding
un-copyrighted music off the Internet to play in the background alongside the footage and also tried to find a camera click sound. I then began editing the footage by adding the background sound and then changing the volume of some of the sections of footage using the Audio Mixer in Adobe Premiere Pro to make sure that the music could be heard in the background, but that in some areas audio from the footage could still be heard (the knife spinning etc.) Charlotte H then added the camera click sound in the correct places and played with the speed/duration. Katie and Charlotte H then began looking for a suitable effect to create the idea of a camera flash. To do this they added the Additive Dissolve effect, as this looked most like a camera flash. Charlotte H also added the film company title at the start of the clip and then added the title of the film at the end. Charlotte T then added extra effects to the sequence and changed some of the speed/duration lengths of sections of footage.