Editing opening sequence reflection

Our editing process


This week we have been editing our final opening sequence as a group we have selected all the clips that we want and have successfully compiled them all together into something that we're really proud of.


We started off for editing process with selecting all our clips that we liked and dragging them into the timeline too give us a visual representation of what we have to work with. From now we started to cut them down we ran into a few issues with consistency throughout the shots sometimes her movements were different and each take causing us to work round and come up with different ways to blend the clips together however this was not true for all the clips.


As a group we worked really well together as a team we all listened and spoke about our opinions on things. After we did our first cut of our opening sequence we realised that it was a lot longer than it needed to be so we duplicated our first cut and started a second one making it a lot faster pace and faster moving we ended up going with the faster cut.


The next thing we had to do when it came to editing is we had to sort out our audio now this was a little bit more complicated than we imagined as during some of our takes we have talking in them giving directions to our actress however Matt came over and helped us to resolve this and showed us how we can do it for ourselves. We unlinked all of the tracks of sound and we deleted channel two of the audio we then went through and we deleted any sections that had speaking over the top of that was unwanted we then dragged audio from other clips that was clean of dialogue and we put it in the sections that had lost the audio we also used a fade in tool between most of our audio clips to make it sound like a smoother transaction between each one as some of them had very different background sounds and it jumped a lot. We then went through and we increased some of the volume of the dialogue that we did want for example the dialogue between the attacker and the detective we did this by using a filter and also turning up the DB. The next thing that we did to do with sound is that we I did sound our sound effects we only had two sound effects to do one of them being the gun dropping to the floor and the other one being the gun going off we used already sampled sound from a file within the Mac computers and we adjusted the EQ to create the sound personalised us.


The next thing that we did in our editing process was titles we decided that we would make up all the names that would appear in our tyre titles. We dragged the titles Out from the layout file we changed all the names and we arrange them in the same place on the screen however we adapted this for some scenes as the titles distracted the audience from what was happening visually. Finally we added a soundtrack into our opening sequence nothing found one on YouTube and bashy exported it into logic pro X and we slowed it down little bit as we thought it would fit opening sequence a lot better and it did and we then air dropped it to the Max and dragged it into our timeline.


In conclusion I believe as a group we worked really well together we kept calm we oh listen to each other and we came out with a opening sequence that we're all really proud of and that we all really enjoy watching and also enjoyed editing.