Week 9 5th-9th March

Editing 6


This week has been extremely productive as we have done a variety of things. As we had Academic Mentoring Day during the week it enables us spend a whole day editing and progressing more with finishing our sequence. 


After a long and frustrating battle with the map we had gotten them all PhotoShoped and ready to put on our opening sequence. Besides from getting the pictures onto the map this was another area were problem occurred. The map would appear on screen in which the way we wanted it to. This made it difficult for us to try and think of an alternative. We had chosen to use a zoom setting to make our map appear on screen. 


In our initial idea we wanted to have a voice over at the beginning of the sequence, this was an idea that we al still liked as wi thought there was something missing at the beginning of the story. On this day we all realised the exact aim of the story which inspired us to write the script of the voice over, which made the complex story easier to understand. As well as writing a script and making a clear outline of our story we had also come up with a name for our film, which we had all struggled with doing in the past. After many unusual suggestions and chats we had concluded with 'Chroniker' which relates back to our story. 


Within this day we also had established that the map was not as well constructed as we had hoped> when planning we all had an idea of what the map would look like. Once having achieved the closes alternatives to what the map looked like in our sequence we all concluded that we didn't like how it looked as t was very quick and unclear of what was happening. After contemplating we had chosen to scrap the map and only use one aspect of it. This meant that some of the time we spent editing and PhotoShoping the map was useful but we did spend a large amount of time trying to figure out how to do the map. 


Once having made this decision it felt as though we had made a major step in finishing our opening sequence. From the beginning when planning we had always wanted our credits to be a bit different and funky so we still tried to intend to do so. Making the credits was slightly longer than I thought but i think this was due to us doing something a bit more complex than usual credits. It was slightly easier to do the credits as Tom had previously made a list of names needed. We had done our credits on Final Cut because they were incorporated with the different frames and shots. 


I felt very excited after this week as I feel as though we are now coming close to finishing our sequence and a lot of our the hard decisions had been made and many of the problems we have had for a while have been resolved.