'Have You Seen...' - Final Draft

This is the final draft of our opening sequence. We took the audience feedback into consideration and made the changes to our video in order to make it better. We changed the music, cut some of the clips down that went on for too long, and we added some new videos in to make the storyline clearer to the audience.

By Hollie Fowler and Alice Hogan

Editing - Adobe After Effects

After getting some audience feedback we decided to change one of the elements of our video, where we zoomed in on a phone in order show a message that had been received. The interference was being picked up by the camera and it was really hard to show what the message said because we could hold the phone or camera still enough and it didn't look professional at all. In order to get round this we decided to go on Adobe After Effects and create a speech bubble that comes out of the phone and shows the message. This was the process of creating the speech bubble:

It was all very complicated to figure out, as there were 3 different bubbles that all had to appear one after another to make it look like it was coming out of the phone, so I had to arrange the timing. We also found that when we uploaded the finished product into Adobe Premiere we hadn't chose the right size of the video, so there were black lines around it that made it look unprofessional. However after figuring it out and changing the size of the edit, the finished product turned out just as we wanted it:

Opening Sequence Audience Feedback

We showed a few people a first draft of our opening sequence and asked them what they thought was good about the video, and what they thought we could improve. Here were their answers:

'Have You Seen...' First Draft.

This is the first draft of our opening sequence called 'Have You Seen...'. We will show a few people this video and get some audience feedback so we know what it is we will need to improve on. We will then improve what we need to for the deadline of 14/03/2012

By Hollie Fowler and Alice Hogan

Editing

Once we had filmed all out footage for our opening sequence, we then had to import all of the footage into Adobe Premier and put it all together. Premier gave us many different ways to edit our video, first of all there was an 'Effects' bar at the side, which had a number of effects available for us to add to our video. One of the effects I used was a fading effect, there was 'dip to black' which made the end of the film fade out, giving it a sense of mysteriousness. The other fading effect was 'expositional fade' which we used to fade out the music so it didn't cut off immediately, it gave it a gradual stop. 

The other editing we used was the alteration of the speed of some of our clips. This was done by right clicking on the clip we needed to speed up, and changing the speed options from 100% which was the normal speed, to 150% which sped it up slightly. We used this for clips that dragged on for too long, so it wasn't weary to watch.

Filming

Filming is currently going well, we found that using professional microphone other than the one built in to the camera, makes a huge difference. The sound is much better quilty and we were able to fix our continuety issues. We are now on to editing out video.

Filming

We have started filming for our opening sequence, however there are problems with continuity throughout the video. This is what went wrong:

Another problem we found was to do with the filming of screens, as we have to film conversations over the Internet, and on the phone the interference is picked up -

 

In order to stop this from happening we will need to make sure that the screen is kept very still as we are filming, in order for the picture not to pixellate.

Apart from this issues which we are fixing tonight on the 25/01/12, the rest has gone well. The song fits in with the genre of the film well, especially with the effects of our titles.

Shot Log

This is a shot log of the videos we have filmed so far. I have commented on the majority of the videos, but not every single one as it wouldn't fit on one page, but this gives you an idea of how the filming is going so far.