Software Which Will Be Used

Just like The Gift (Preliminary Task) for our two minute opening sequence we will be using the same three software’s which are again Final Cut Express, Live Type and possibly Garage Band depending if we do add sound effects. After playing around with these software’s at the start my partner and I have a much clear understanding on how they work so hopefully when it does come to applying the skills which we have picked up to our sequence we will be able to do a better job (well we hope or I hope we do.)

We have just recoreded our sequence The Devils Playground and have started editing it. We have started of using Final Cut Express to import the video and decide which bits we will use and which parts we won't. The screen show below shows how we tranfered the recorded files from the camera onto the Mac's. We decided to move all the recoreded footage onto the laptop as we can go through each and everyone to see which one we will need, instead of tranferring them one by one and then realsing the one we needed we have not transferred, this will also save time.
























Once the recorded footage has been successfully uploaded, you will be able to see all the different scenes on a window within Final Cut Express, as the image below shows now all we had to do was to decide, what the first scene would be and work our way untill the end. Once we had done that then we would go on and think about how we will edit the footage.





















Once we decieded the order we dragged each footage one by one into the time line which is provided below the window which is in the image above. The image below shows what the time line looks like with the footage all lined up in the order we want it. Once the order was sorted we then went back and watched what we had put togother, to keep a continous flow between each frame we had to make sure that the footage was cutted in the correct place, for example one scene is where the camera is on the floor and Blawal walks past and chuks the weapon which he has used to murder a victim on the floor, once he has chucked it, I had to press stop recording so we could move onto the next scene, so as i stopped the recording the camera actuall moved quite a bit, if i left this movement in their it would have ruined the sequence and would have been an epic failure for a fluent continuality, so we had to use the cutting tool to cut that part off, we also had to cut other footage either at the beginning or the end.

In the image below you can also see a black dots which has a line going through it, which then goes down, this is an effect which we had decided to use known as a fade, this edit technique was used to able us to achieve the effect which we wanted to do which i will not tell you now but you will see in the complete movie, so you will have to wait.








The image below shows the software called Live Type, this software helped us to produce the title of our film, directed, starring and the credits. The titles took a lot of time to make because as I said before i had no knowledge about the software and how to use it apart from a little from before when we did our Preliminary Task. The reason why this time it took us ages was because we had to use the right font and effects on our text so it would relate to our genre of our movie which is Thriller/Horror. We also had to test the titles to see if once we added them to our sequence would it look good and relate to the movie.
















This image below is the timeline for the Live Type software which just like Final Cut Express shows you where and how long each of the lettering will take to appear and how long they will stay in the screen for again to see the end resullt you will have to wait for the final piece to be uploaded so be patient.