After filming our first scene we started to review the footage and put the different shots we had filmed into chronological order. However, we quickly noticed that the shots hadn't turned out as we hoped with the actors breaking the 4th wall, and we didn't have a range of shots. At this point we decided the best thing to do was to re-film the whole scene.
After re-filming the scene, we repeated what we did prior and put the shots into chronological order. The new version of the scene looked alot better than the original version and so we then started to cut down the shots, and edit them so we could switch between them during the scene of dialogue. We soon began to realise that the end of the scene didn't seem to work and there was continuity error with the character standing up and to tracking him backwards. At this part there was also a problem with the audio levels between the previous shot and when tracking. To fix these two issues we had to first add a dissolve transition between the two shots where there was a continuity error to show a passage of time and then we refilmed the audio of the final scene and put it over the shot with a slight echo so it fades and matches the transition we added.
We followed the same pattern for the next scene filmed at the Tamworth castle grounds; ordering the shots and cutting them down to size. That's when we began to look at audio and sound levels. We planned for the shots in the scene to be accompanied with a soundtrack so we reviewed the audio in each shot and lowered it ready for when the soundtrack was put over.
Following this, we started to add transitions at the beginning and end of each shot for the first scene. We crossed the transitions over between the scenes to make them more fluid rather than cutting and rigid. We also added the transition 'dip to black' at the last shot of the first scene to signify the ending of that scene and also at the end of the second scene to signify an ending.
The titles were then created and added over the shots in the conventional order of a title sequence. We wanted to make them subtle over the shots so used a white, simple font. We once again added transitions to the titles so they faded in and out with the shots. We had some problems with the titles and kept coming across the issue of what we typed not going onto the shots when we dragged them into the sequence. We quickly overcome this however, by rendering the project and re-opening it.
Once this was complete, and we had rough draft of our opening scene we got it reviewed by our teacher who found the narrative confusing and suggested reordering the two scenes making our originally-planned first scene the last. We took this into consideration and how the narrative we created was portrayed to the audience but decided to stick with the original order. We did however, review our opening scene and make changes to help the narrative for example adding '6 months earlier' prior to our last scene and over our establishing shot to set the time-frame to the audience.
The final stage of our editing process was to add our soundtrack to the opening scene. We decided on the karaoke version of I'm Yours by Jason Mraz as the sound matched the light narrative we were trying to portray. Once the soundtrack was converted into an MP3 file, we inserted it into the sequence and spent time adjusting all of the audio levels until the soundtrack was balanced with the audio of the shots.
We did a final review and then the first draft of our opening scene was completed and edited together.
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