How we actually IMPORTED and EXPORTED

As part of the final finishing touches and getting everything together into one sequence was rather complicated.

• Once we made our sequence on FINAL CUT PRO
• We had to IN and OUT it and the beginning and the end
• Saved this as 'FINAL OPENING SEQUENCE
• We then opened up SOUNDTRACK PRO
• We uploaded our sound track that we were inspired by a youtube video
• We then had to IMPORT our Opening sequnece into SOUNDTRACK PRO
• We then were able to move about the music to places were it seemed best while the clip was playing
• We were then able to watch it on a SMALL SCREEN on SOUNDTRACK PRO
• We then saved this as 'MUSIC'
• Went back into FINAL CUT PRO
• IMPORTED the 'MUSIC' file from our VIDEO DRIVE
• MUTED all other sound that was in our previous opening sequence as we only wanted our NEW SOUNDTRACK to be heard
• Then DRAGGED our SOUNDTRACK onto the tabs
• F13 the screen to watch it bigger and it played with the title sequence

Thats how we in corporated our music track with our film footage, we noticed a couple of errors as while we played the movie we still could hear other noises so we had to keep rechecking that we had MUTED all the unreleveant background sounds

Changing the production company

Our beginning production company name was D.E.M.S we decided to call it this because it had all our initials and we wanted to seem like our film was made by an independent company, rather than something big such as 20th Century Fox which was not needed as our film is not a big Hollywood film. 

Furthermore by creating our own production company with all our names in it, showed how much of a team we are and, what better than D.E.M.S ? it's also easy to pronounce because it is short for Demi.

However, we were told that it was not very professional for a production company to be someones name and the idea of initials was slightly tacky, so we decided that it was better to use a producer called 'Mike Collins' and another title to be 'In Association with Safari Films and Broadway Ent' There was not anything significant about these names Sheri and Elias picked them randomly however, we really liked it. The idea of two production companies tells the audience that this film budget is not too much and it is made by an independent company rather than a large conglomerate.

Lastminute.com

The deadline for our project is literally less than 24hours away, and today was complete and utter stress. 
We looked over and over our clip to keep checking if we needed to add anymore effects, titles, and also include the sounds. As a matter of fact we needed to:


- Change the production company
- Add and edit the soundtrack 
- Export and Import
- Swap scenes around 


In the next few blogs i'll explain in details why we had to do make these changes, how long it took to be done etc

SoundTrack for our Thriller

A QUICK SCREEN GRAB OF THE SELECTION WE HAD WHEN WE DECIDED TO DO OUR SOUNDTRACK TODAY. WE ALREADY HAD THE ROUGH IDEA. BUT FOR THE BEGINNING AND ENDING OUR OUR OPENING SEQUENCE WE USED 'HEAVY BREATHING' TO SUGGEST OUR ACTOR WAS WAKING UP FROM HIS NIGHTMARE

TO NAVIGATE TO THIS WE HAD TO GO TO

-EFFECTS

-PEOPLE

-THEN TYPED IN 'BREATHING'

THERE WAS THEN A SELECTION OF EITHER FEMALE OR MALES BREATHING TYPES WITH A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT EXAMPLES.

Thoughts about finishing

Our Thriller film is now COMPLETED. We are happy to say that we were able to finish at the end of our lesson. It was such a hard task that did aquire lots of time and effort especially the editing process. As i practically put the whole thing together i was rather stressed out as i really wanted our film to look as successful as possible. We were able to add our soundtrack that was made by Elias in our group and it sounded really good with the rest of the film. We also had to quickly get recordings of Elias breathing heavily as if he had just awoken a bad nightmare.

As today was our very last editing, we put in all the names e.g. directors name, actors name etc, Our titles are really simple but still very appealing. They crawl into a black screen  (white font) and slide outwards.

Hopefully everyone enjoys our thriller opening and will be excited to see what happens later on in the film.

OVERDUE video blog 2

The second video blog we made after finishing filming..

WOO!

OVERDUE video blog 1

This is the first video blog we made after filming the first day..