Film Opening - First Edit

Last week, Becky and I finished our first initial edit of out film opening with some of the titles we wanted to include. Using Final Cut Express, we sorted and picked the clips that we wanted to use. This totalled to about 7 minutes of footage which meant that we needed to then cut them down to fit the 2 minutes time limit. Referencing our storyboard for the rough timing I had suggested, we managed to cut these clips down to just below 2 minutes which allowed us some time for titles to be added in.

I learnt how to use the program LiveType and created some basic but more interesting and animated titles that the ones that Final Cut offers. We used a typewriter style font called '1942 Report' that we downloaded off the website DaFont. We added a fade in and fade out effect called Serpentine which we both agreed worked and looked good for our style of film.

For our music we used the pen tool to create markers at the start of the track and the point in which we wanted it to play full volume by, to allow the music to fade in and out. This created a much smoother transition between each track as we have used 3 different tracks which have different sounds and styles to them and didn't sound very good just placed next to each other with no fading.

We added in transition effect such as cross fades which make the clip fade to black and then into the next clip. This adds a very smooth change between clips and by doing this, makes the clips more softer and less jumpy which fits the style of the music for example in the getting ready scene much better than short jumpy cuts would.

This is our first edit of out film opening. Youtube has made the colours of some of the scene look a bit weird and not like they look on Final Cut however this should be able to be fixed. Also, we are missing the titles for Emily & Jay.