Editing: Day 4

This is the fourth editing session we have completed, and in this session we finished cutting and laying the shots of the timeline so it was then ready to be watched.

Firstly we sat down and watched the whole sequence from the start and then we begun to get to editing. I suggested we move the title animation between the chase scene and the normality because this will help create tension and suspense for the audience and also this is a good way to separate the two periods of time. Also in this session we discussed the transitions we could use, but only a few were used because we didn't want our opening scene to appear like a slideshow.

This is the website where we downloaded the audio track.

Once we had completely finished cutting and laying out the sequence, we then decided to get some music for our opening scene. But before this editing session, we assigned roles for different tasks, and Amber was in charge of the sound. So we went onto Free play music which was the website Amber used for her research. There were three types of audio which Amber had selected and the tracks were Peacekeeper, Man eater and Army Angels. We sat down as a group and listened to all three and discussed which one we liked best and out of the three, we thought Man eater was the best track. This was because the speed of the music and the tones used would be suitable for our opening scene. The track has a total length of 2 minutes and 10 seconds so we have plenty of audio to use when inputting the sound to the sequence.

This is the link to the audio track: http://www.freeplaymusic.com/search.aspx?q=maneater

After choosing the music, we sat down with our teacher and watched the entire sequence on the iMacs. After viewing the opening scene, suggestions were made on how we could improve the opening scene. One suggestion was to include an establishing shot which will help establish the setting. Fortunately, when filming we filmed a train going passed when we were filming on the stairs, so we could use this at the very beginning of the sequence to both, establish the setting and to meet the conventions of a spy thriller. Another suggestion was to be extra precise when using the blade tool as there were very small mistakes made which where visible when watching the sequence.

After our teacher finished giving us feedback we then took her advice on board and another one of her suggestions made was to delete a certain shot of Paul walking to the camera because this revealed his identity and looked out of place. We deleted this shot entirely and then we watched the sequence again and we believe this made more sense as Paul appears more like a antagonist.

This is the Raw Footage of the shot that we decided to delete. This shot shows the antagonist walking in throw the main entrance without being cautious. This is not realistic and the antagonist needs to be more sneaky and aggressive.