Updates on Final cut editing

This week Jess got all the shots onto final cut in the right order so that it is ready to edit and put in different transformations. As I am not familiar with the software Final Cut and Efosa is, we have decided to make him the main editor but now and again I give in my input and say what we can make better to look more effective. But up till now it is going very well.

Sound effects/sound for film

Sounds
Jess has started to create the music for our opening film. She thought would be a good idea to use a Jewellery box noise and make it creepy and sound more scary because she is sitting at a dressing table.
It has taken me a lesson to create the sound and it lasts for 7 seconds which is quite short but we are going to make it echo out so we can use another sound after.

Lesson updates

In today's double lesson Efosa is carrying on editing our Opening Sequence while I have been working on the sound for some of the shots in the film.
Our editing of the film is coming to the end but we need to add sound and titles still. So that's why I have been trying to create the sound so we can put it all together.
Meanwhile Chloe has been focusing on planning the meetings and creating meeting logs to we are update to date which all our work.

Our Film Showcase

We had our film showcase today were we watched everyone's opening sequence and then wrote our responses to them. For example we stated what we liked most about them and also what we could improve on. We had a number of people that gave us feedback and wrote they wrote and rated the Sound, Characters and Camera etc. on a evaluation sheet.
Most people hadn't quite finished there films for example the sound wasn't in time or the cuts hadn't been put together properly but we took this into consideration and just wrote what we think personal would improve their film. 

When we showed our opening to the class we had to stand up and introduce the characters that are in the movie and also say where it was filmed and also we explain that the credits aren't in order yet and there is no sound as we haven't finished that yet.

This is just a rough working copy of our film. It's about 60% done at this stage. We just hadn't made the necessary cuts and we needed to cut some footage out. We listened to the feedback from the rest of the class and made some changes

Changing the dialogue of film

We have decided to do a voice over in our film where we see Efosa and Jade on the phone to each other. This is because Jade's voice doesn't fit well with the genre and our teach told us that her accent sounds Essex. So we decided to use Chloe's voice instead and also we have made the timing right because before the dialogue was too quick. We did the voice over on garage band and also used a microphone.

there was a problem because we could hear interference from mobile phones so we had to make sure that we cut this out. 

After we have added this voice over into our film there is not much else that we need to do. So we are hoping to finish our film by Thursday at 10:50.

Some Problems the group faced

As a group we have come across many problems and mistakes that may of caused our group to be behind. But we have sorted these out in various ways. For example one problem that we have faced was the lesson when everyone learnt how to use the editing software final cut Me and Chloe was not here on this lesson so Efosa had to go through it with us again so this caused our group to be behind for a couple of lessons but we soon managed to catch up. We did this by doing a lot of work quickly so we wasn't behind anymore.

Another problem we come across was that we didn't live near to each other so it was hard to meet up to sort things out. Because Me and Chloe are close friends we live near each other so it was just getting together with Efosa and Jade to do filming etc. As we was working more together at school we became closer so it was easier to get together for filming round each other houses. But the filming and meetings were mostly done round my house as it was the easiest to get to.

Lastly another problem was the dialogue in our film which I have already stated but this put us behind a lot because it meant that we had to cut the dialogue out from Efosa and Jade and do voice over using Chloe's voice instead of Jade's but we managed to sort this out and now the dialogue fits perfectly with our film.