Week 8 27th Febuary -2nd March

Editing 5


Map
This week Michael had taught us how to PhotoShop pictures onto our map into our opening sequence. This was a very hard long and time consuming process. From this week I now know how to do a variety of things on PhotoShop and I now have gained knowledge on the software. The map is a major part of our storyline as hard as it has been to incorporate it we have tired our hardest to make it look the way we had envisioned it. 

Production Title
This week we had started to design our production title that would appear at the beginning of our opening sequence. We already had the name of our production company, which was 'Aftershock Productions'. We now needed a symbol/logo to go with it and some form of a small extract that we could insert at the beginning of our sequence. 
We had done our production title on a software called LiveType. This was a software we would possibly used when doing our credits. LiveType was slightly difficult to use as no member in our group had used it before. We used the process of exploring to self teach ourselves how to use it. We had now gotten a background and our production name done and we needed to import our symbol, which is a black lightening bolt onto it. 

Split Screen
We continued to split screen al of our shots and all the shots we wanted to be split screened were now done. We had also chosen to only do the shots that would work well to split screen as we didn't want the split screening to look drag along for our audience. We had only done the shots we had thought would either look good and work well as a split screen or the shots that we thought would be boring to look at.  


Now we were coming to see our opening sequence starting to finish we thought that we would try to cut down the time of the sequence as it was currently at 3 minutes 40 seconds. Tom was no in the lesson when we had thought of this so Sam, Ella and I had to become ruthless to which shots we were definitely going to keep and which we were going to completely scrap. This was a difficult decision for all of us to make as we all liked different shot but as we came to realise it was about the shots that the audience wouldn't miss out on and the shot that if not there would the audience still understand the story. Once having done this we had cut it down to 2:40. This was still with spaces for the title of the film and where the map was going to be placed. 


Alongside doing this, Tom  though it would be good start to think about credits. He researched into all the necessary names that would appear on our credits so that when it came to the time of doing our credits we had a list of titles that we need to use. I thought this was useful as when it came to the time when we needed to do our credits we would be very efficient and prepared.