Week 3 - Editing

We started editing the film today, we decided to start our film with the the classroom scene we originally thought to do. So we looked through our clips and watched them back and picked out certain parts to use for the opening. However we came across a problem which was that in the doodle we filmed chloe drawing, her real mane is on the top of the paper, causing us to try and find ways to remove it.
We ended up having to through all our clips of that scene and picking out ones where her name is covered by the hand and not the flower. I think we handled this problem well because we did it as a group.

This is a shot where her hand is covering the name at the top.

I began to do the credits, I looked through different types of fonts and found one that suited our film well, it was called 'garden_type_ demo'. As a group we thought this font fitted well with the film as it was stems with words for the flowers, as shown below:

On photoshop, I managed to change the colour of the credits as well as the size. I got stuck when trying to save them to the computer, once I had finished, so I asked the teacher for help. He showed me how to save the layers properly and advised me that I do them induvidually so that we could insert them properly. I took this on board and followed his instructions. I managed to save them successfully and send them to Sarah and Chloe's computer via a hard-drive provided by the teacher. An exmaple of the credits are shown below, they are on a pink background because they looked bland when inserted on a black canvas, so we changed it to pink on the final cut express software after adding them to the sequence:

 We managed to finish the editing of the scene we got stuck with and we hope that next lesson we can finish it as a whole and insert the credits. If we can do this we will get to insert the music as well as get ahead in the editing and go over the editing throughly.

Week 3 - Editing

I started to transfer the credits from my computer to the other computer that had all of our film on it, so that we could insert it into the film on the Final Cut software. I did this via the college email however it didnt work successfully so I had to find another way to get it on the computer. Whilst I did this Chloe and Sarah where picking the footage to instert into the film. I borrowed Daves hardrive and transfered the credits without any problems.

After I did this, we talked, as a group, about the sound track and voice over we still needed to do. It was our last lesson of editing so we needed to do it get the sound done and up on the final cut so we could imcorporate it into the film. We decided to split the work up so I would go and write a script and record the voice over, using my voice. We decided to use my voice because Sarah and Chloe both agreed I had a soothing storytelling voice.

First to get an idea of what I needed to wirte I looked at a video off youtube from a film called 'Enchanted'  which has a narrative for a beginning. This is shown below  ( up to 1:19 seconds):

This helped me a little by giving me the basic idea of how to start my narrative, with that fresh in my mind I began my narrative.
Below is What I chose to say:
Me: Once Upon a time
There was an ordinary young girl
Who was unaware of the powers bestowed upon her by the magical creatures of the land she wished she was in;

3seconds wait
Her name was Fluer
When the girl grew tired of the world she lived in

2seconds wait
Her heritage would call to her...

1second wait
Fluer *Whisphering* - repeat 3 times

Wake up Fluer *Whispher*

Everything in her world shone like the sun, the golden leaves dazzled and danced in the wind
And she knew she was no longer in her world

The water fairies blessedher as she awoke

Water fairies:  
"Fluer"
"Do not be afriad"
"You must be suprised"
"You are our princess"
"Explore your world princess"

Me: And so, she did.

I think the voice over script is good until it reaches the 'water fairy' voices. I feel that it drags on a bit and I feel this would make the viewer loose interest in the story or get bored. I think that we should try to avoid this when editing and cut some of the voice over out.
End Narrative

I think this narrative goes well with the footage because it explains the main characters actions, thoughts and feelings without having the main character say anything. The timing was important as we had to save time by getting the spacing between what I say and the actions in the film correct and in sync. I feel we did this well because we accoplished this and managed to focus more on our music.

Towards the end of the lesson our chances of getting finished by the end of the lesson got tighter and tighter, by 2 o'clock we had completed the editing of our footage and inserting the voice over. We now only had the credits and music to import to be finished. By 2:15pm we had manged to successfully import our credits however they where too small to fit the screen so we stretched them to make them visible on the final cut software. Once we did this we had to ask help for importing the music as we didn't know how to do it, after it was imported we had 10 minutes until the end of the lesson so we put the music with our credits and put an underlay of soft mystical music under the narrative to remind the viewer that it is the beginning before the credits.