Editing my Film

Editing My Film

Title Sequence

After I finished filming my scenes it was then time to edit them. I decided to start off my creating an opening sequence to my film. This was important as this was where the audience would make their first impressions about my film so it needed to be good. I decided that it would be simple as this can be effective in many ways. I started off with a black screen that would eventually fade into my film clips. I then added text over the black screen to display the title and production company name, as this was what I had scene in previous examples. After watching the sequence I had made I decided that it lacked something to interest the audience so I decided to add a backing track to the opening sequence to see if this would engage my audience more. When adding this backing track I chose to make the music fade out when the film clips come into action. This was because in the first scene there is dialogue and in order for the audience to feel the emotions of the character, her voice needs to be clear.

Adding Transitions

After creating my title sequence I decided to move straight onto creating the body of my film. I started by adding all of the clips I filmed into Final Cut Pro, from this I was able to watch the clips and how they flowed together, which lead to me cutting clips and altering the order until everything was in the correct order and the story was being told. I then realised that my film didn't flow well with quick cuts to the next scene so I decided to include some transitions in order to make my film flow better and to help it look more professional. I looked at all of my options and tested a few out that I thought would be good before deciding that a fade seemed to work well with this film. This transition also helped show that some time had past but not a lot.

Adding Transitions

Green Scene Editing

Next I had to fix the green screen scenes and give them a background to work with. I found this quite difficult as I had no experience with a green screen before and this made things tricky. However, after learning how to alter the green screen background I was able to begin creating my scenes. Something I liked about using the green scene was that it enable me to change the background in my scenes if I felt the background didn't work with the dialogue or emotions that were meant to be going through these scenes. This allowed me to be creative about the choices I was making throughout the editing process. When deciding on a background I sometimes had to alter the colour and add filters onto the clips in our for it to match with the background. I found that this took a long time to do but I felt was worth it as it made the scenes look more real and professional. 

Creating my credits

After I had created most of my film and it was just finishing touches left I decided to begin work on my credits. This meant that I needed to find a song that would fit the overall view of the film and would still interest the audience. I decided that the best way to do this was to go with the original opening sequence backing track as this worked well in the beginning of the film. I then decide to stick with a plain black background also like my opening sequence and like the existing texts that I had looked at. I then added text from there including people like the actors and extras as well as directors and producers. This made my film look and feel more professional.