Editing: Day 5

This is the five editing session we have now completed, however on this day we actually had two hours because of two media lessons which gave us more time to edit. In this session we mainly concentrated on the sound and completing the teachers feedback.

This is an image of the teachers feedback which we were given to help us improve our opening sequence.

I suggested the text should be altered so there is consistency.

We begun by adding the sound which we uploaded onto the iMacs in the previous lesson. However we found it difficult to add the sound file to Final Cut Pro and we all attempted to import the file. But I realised the file was in a zip format so I opened up the file and then dragged the main file which was inside, into the Final Cut Pro Timeline. Once the sound had been successfully imported into the software we all decided to listen to the whole sequence so we know that we are happy with the track chosen. As we listened to the track we watched the shots and looked out for anywhere that may need the sound to be cut shorter or just to adjust the volume.

 This is the chase scene with the soundtrack which helps create suspense and a dramatic part in the sequence.

I cut the soundtrack so the music was related to the genre convention.

One part of the sound sounded very natural and contained noises which would normally be associated with the rainforest so this didn't match the conventions of a spy thriller. However the rest of the soundtrack matches the genre conventions and works really well with the opening scene. Also the soundtrack matches certain scenes with the type of tensions and suspense. However the point of view shot, which is the part which builds up to a dramatic scene had music which is to loud and so I changed volume of the soundtrack by using the cursor to edit the sound on the timeline therefore the tension was increased.

I edited the sound and altered the volume and tone of the music.

The first 10 seconds of the track were cut due to the sounds being related to rainforest and animal noises. Here is the sound file: http://www.freeplaymusic.com/search.aspx?q=maneater

Another part of the sound which we did was near the beginning. Amber cut the sound track into sections and then deleted the parts which werent needed. Then I simple copied and pasted the sound parts and placed them next to each other. This helped create an effective opening part as the sound amplied the suspense.

This is the scene where Amber cut and deleted the soundtrack and where I copied and pasted the parts of the the sound and placed them in there correct poistions so it is in time with the movement.

This is the sound effect we wanted for the scene.

In the normality scene, we added some extra sound effects and this helped improve the scene. When we listened to Agent Boyer her voice was hard to hear and therefore we couldnt understand what she was saying. So I increased the volume of Agent Boyer's voice so that it was clear to understand what she was saying and also when searching through the sound section we came across different mobile phone sounds, so we decided to include one of these sounds in the normality scene so it appears that the phone is ringing and this helps make the scene more realistic. Also Kayleigh noticed that at the end of one of the sounds a mans voice appears however this wasnt very clear so we decided that we could crop the mans voice out of the track and place it after Amy speaks. I adjusted the mans voice so that it was clearer and easier to understand and then this made the whole normality scene more realistic. 

In this shot we added a different sounds to help make the scene more realistic. We added a phone call ring sound and also a mans voice which helps make the scene more mysterious.

This is one of the font we found on DaFont.

After we were happy with the sound we watched the entire opening sequence again to ensure the sound was fully correct and there was no issues. After this we moved onto the opening credits and and decided on a font. However when searching the font list we didnt see a font we liked so we decided to go onto Dafont. We saw several fonts that we thought were good as they matched the genre conventions and had spy elements to them. For example the image on the right shows a code like text which refers to the spy thriller genre. However we didnt know how to apply this font into Final Cut Pro so we carried on searching through the font on the current software and discovered a font that we all liked which matched the genre conventions.