Final tweeks to the film

Today we focused on tweeking the film in order to try and make it look as though it flows more naturally and improve the continuity. We made sure all the shots ran smoothly by ading fade in and fade outs and also dissolves (shown below). This enables the picture and music to gradually change rather than changing too abrubtly. We also cut some bits out in which we had before hand decided to put in, this was in order to make the film shorter and to add credits inbetween where appropriate. We believe this worked effectively and were happy with the final outcome. Moreover, some pieces of music in the film increased in volume far too much. Therefore, in order to decrease the sound but still have it louder than the piece before hand we used a tool on final cut express. This enabled us to place dots on the pink sound bar, as shown below, and drag them either up or down to increase or decrease the sound where appropriate.   

Dissolve;

Credits;

Final cut express;