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;



finished product of our ident

Today in lesson, whilst Connor was fine tuning the lasts bit of the thriller opening, me and Sarah completed the ident! We are quite happy with the final outcome of the ident and believe the music in which we made using garage band goes well with it. Our completed ident is shown below;

Adding the music

Today in class me and Sarah edited the last section of our film, we completed this whilst Connor made the credits to the thriller. This way we were able to get more completed in a shorter time. Furthermore, after school Connor and Sarah finished the editing and added the music to the film. I have listened to the film, and believe the music goes well with the thriller, I am happy with the outcome they have acheived.  

Plans for today

Today me, Connor and Sarah plan to spend the majority of the day editing all of our footage. We have edited quite a bit already, however still need to creat the credits and put the music over the top as well as finish editing. we plan to spend from around 9:00 - 10:35 in the computer rooms editing and between 3:00 - 5:00. We believe that this will be a sufficient ammount of time to complete a lot of the editing needed.

Finishing filming

Today we finished all of our filming, this did not take us long as we only had a little bit left to finish. We decided to take many repetitive shots of footage in order to make sure we got it perfect, moreover we can start finishing off our editing for our overall product of our two minute opening. 
Below are some still pictures of the filming we completed;

Filming the first half of our Graphic Match

Today after school, me, Connor and Sarah went back to Sarah's to complete Georgia's contribution to the graphic match. We asked her to be seated at the computer desk and type a status on the computer on facebook. She couldn't type the sentence we originally asked her to type without making mistakes or quick enough, so we just got to her to type anything as the status could not be seen at this stage of the film. We then got her to click on a notification which allocated her to her profile picture and zoomed in on it. 
Will complete the second half of the graphic match next time we film, we believ this will be a success. Moreover, we feel as though the graphic match will enhance our thriller and make it look more professional.

new participants on OneTrueMedia

Below is the new participants of our thriller put into a slide show format on OneTrueMedia.com;

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1. Georgia Wigley - Protagonist
2. Hannah Sharples - friend
3. Ashleigh Hay - friend
4. Connor Murray - Group Member
5. Sarah Warnock - Antagonist
6. Hollie Tuvey - Group member