Editing Journel

Day 1

So the first day we imported all our footage and it took nearly two hours because we the first group to import and no-one had ever done it before, so we were kind of the experiment group. The SD card wasn't reading, and it didn't read the camera either! so we had to download some software to allow us to import our footage onto the macs. After that was all sorted,we opened final cut pro and basically put in the clips unedited so we knew what was going to happen where. We didn't have some of our shot like the extreme closeups, but we weren't onto that part of our sequence, so it didn't matter just yet.

Day 2

We got round to filming the extra footage over the weekend, so that we could edit it in school.we made sure we had an order, and got our film down to 2:13 minutes, we created our VKLC Productions logo, and imported that onto final cut pro, we also started to think about music and researched the artist Moby.

Day 3

-we started adding music to our film and it was looking good with our sequence
-we decided on a music track isolate
-we weren't sure where the music would start though,  we all had different ideas whether it should be at the end or the beginning or fade in and out though-out the piece
-for now we were just going to add the track in and experiment later

Day 4

-we finally came to a conclusion of the music problem and decided to put it at the beginning of the piece
-we figured that we needed to adjust the levels of the music to the voice over for them to work together
-we wanted to insert more credits, and have chosen to have them in a plain normal style reflecting the practicality of Ariadne

Day 5

- I was chosen to find the build up sound which i had the choice of two, and i think the one i picked works really well
-we wanted the build up to stop and all music to stop when the main title came up
-but we changed it to when  Ari see's Isaac and that worked better than what we originally planned. it creates suspense

Day 6

-finished the main bulk of our movie, which included aspect ratio (2:35:1) and  added in titles and credits, one of the main conventions of film openings
-we also colour graded the film, which proved to be very hard, because you needed to change all to the settings in RGB
-our films quite dark so that means we would have to adjust the settings to fit the feel of our film
-so we went for a bluey/yellowy tinge to the film to make it stand out more
-all our shots look very cinematic and it ties together nicely with the colour grading

Day 7

- we put our video onto to youtube, taking a hefty 40 minutes to load, but all the hard works paid of and we all feel relieved its over!