Thrid day of editing

Today Lauren Gibbens and I continued to edit our film. We decided on the choice of music we were going to have throughout the opening credits of the film, a slow opera song, giving an eerie feel. We thought that this coinciding with the dark trees at the beginning would look and sound good together. We thought about adding a slowed down ‘happy birthday’ to one of our scenes as it is a motif in our film, to do this Lauren started to use garage band in order to make the music that we needed. We spent 1 hour editing today, we only came across one main issue in today's session which was creating a flash back. Usually a flash back would be in black and white in order to show the contrast but as our main film is in black and white we decided to make our flash back in colour. Our current difficulty is how to show clearly that the section is a flash back, we took a 'trial and error' approach to this section, trying out different filters on final cut express (FCE) but at the moment we haven't found the right one, therefore will continue to try tomorrow. I think that we will have to use another video from YouTube to help us find which one would look best for the flash back clip. Today we realised that we had a few long clips in our film so used a few of the tools on FCE to chop them down into small clips, using different transitions to combine them.

Jae bennett