Day 5 of editing

Today was the first time during the editing process that all four of us from our group have been in the lesson, we had a double media studies lesson today, and all of us had two free study periods, we all spent one free period editing plus the double media lesson and Joanne and I stayed for the second free period.

We have almost completed the editing process of our thriller opening. Today we recorded the 'company name' for the beginning titles.

This video shows the opening of the clip, it shows Lauren Gibbens writing the name of our film company JLJL productions. We had filmed her writing it, I filmed her ripping up the paper, we then played this, made a sub clip using final cut express and rewound it in order for it to look as though the paper was being pieced back together. As well as rewinding the clip we sped it up by double the speed. 

When we used our camera and watched the videos back, there is a buzzing noise over the clip from the camera recording. To eliminate this, I took each clip separately and changed the audio and pan level in order to cancel out the noise, I changed the pan to 1 and the level to -20. By doing this it has reduced the buzzing sound but still kept any intended sound. 

During today's session we recorded Lauren Gibbens singing happy birthday for the opening 20 seconds of our thriller. We used a microphone and the software Garage Band on the Mac computers to record Lauren and put an effect on her voice called Diva. By doing this it has echoed her voice. 

Joanne also used garage band to help make a sound track for our film, she used already installed clips of different piano pieces to create a minutes worth of music.