We firstly began the process of creating our opening scene by filming the scenes for it. We filmed on multiple days: the 2nd, 6th, 11th and 12th of February. We also tried to film on the 10th of February, however when we went to film the scenes, our location was occupied and we therefore weren't able to. From this experience we were able to learn that we needed to check ahead next time to see if our location would be free.
We began our editing process whilst we were still filming our scenes. To begin it, we started off by editing a couple of our scenes in Final Cut Pro in our media lessons. However, when we came to editing, we realised that many of the clips we had filmed were not good enough for us to use. This was either due to the clips being out of focus, the lighting being dark, lots of background sound/ sound being quiet or the camera being wonky. We also had problems with our microphone that we were only able to sort out at a later date. So we therefore decided to re film these scenes which we later did when we had a large filming session on February the 12th. However, because of this, we had little to edit and therefore edited the few clips we had and put them in chronological order so that when we came to import our other scenes it would be easier to create our opening scene.
On February the 15th, me and Milly came into school between 9-2 to edit the majority of our opening scene. We began by importing all of the footage we had accumulated, which we had on two seperate memory cards. We imported this footage into iphoto to begin with, instead of Final Cut Pro so that it wasn't confusing when coming to editing it and we could decide what specific clips we wanted before we started editing the footage in Final Cut Pro. We then re-watched all of our footage and chose the clips we wanted. As we had taken many videos previously, we had a lot to re-watch and decide whether we wanted to keep or get rid of them, therefore this took a long time to do. When we had chosen what we wanted, we dragged the clips into Final Cut Pro. We then had to re-watch each clip and edit it down to what we wanted. To edit it, we cut out any mistakes that we had filmed, or any movement/ sound we didn't want in the scene. When editing our opening title sequence, we edited each clip so that they were all about the same length. This is because we wanted it to be continuous and because we needed to include the names of everyone involved in our opening scene, and by making all of the clips the same length, this meant that each person was given equal credit. However, we did make the opening clip the longest as we did not have enough clips for each individual person and therefore made the first clip double the length of the others.
After we had edited the clips to how we wanted them, we then put them in chronological order. With the opening sequence scenes at the beginning, followed by the doctors surgery, church, flashback, and doctors surgery scenes again at the end. We then re-watched the entire scene to check that we didn't need to re-edit any scenes that we hadn't properly edited before and to check that it was all continuous. When we had done this, we found that we were beginning to see continuity in our opening scene for our film as it was beginning to come together.
After this, we started to work on getting our opening title sequence looking how we wanted it to. We added in each name of everyone that was involved in creating our production. We went and looked through multiple different text edits and then looked at different fonts. Eventually we chose what we wanted, and then decided on the colour and size. We chose the Helvetica font for our text and we made it white at a size 63 font. We went and did the same font, size and colour for each name and as we did this, we positioned each name of everyone who was involved in creating our film opening on the clip in the correct place. We made sure that each piece of text was put on screen for the same amount of time and that it all worked with the clip that it was placed over (eg. the text came in and ended when the clip did).
Next, we worked on the sound for the video. We started by importing our background music which we had already previously saved/ imported onto itunes. When we had done this, we edited the music down so that it was the same length as the scene. Then we re watched it and realised that there was still a lot of background sound on clips that we didn't need sound for. So we went through each clip and took the volume of the majority of the clips off, leaving the clips that had sound of digetic voices in.
Then, we included our film name at the beginning of the opening. We chose a font that we thought was best suited to our film and edited it by changing the colour, size and letter spacing. Our film name is in a white text with a black background which we chose to coincide with the white and black theme that is in our ident and also the white font that is in our opening title sequence that displays the names of everyone who was invloved in creating our film opening. We also edited how it entered and exited the page by adding in a fade effect. We then started to add a fade in/out effect to other parts of the film opening that needed it in order to allow it to make more sense.
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