Mendacity (Media AS Opening)

This is our final version of the opening to Mendacity, Enjoy!

Diary of Editing 27th March

Today i finished editing the opening. I changed the sound levels on some clips and faded some clips to make the opening seem more seamless and professional.

Diary of Editing 26th March

Today I cut the opening down to 2:01 which is really good despite the fact that i had to cut out some scenes such as the toast scene. I also added some background music from freeplaymusic.com. The two tracks i used are called Abandoned and On The Trigger. Tomorrow i will remove the background noise from our footage so there is no hissing in the background.

Diary of Editing 23rd March

Today i finished inserting the titles into our opening scene and have started seriously cutting down some scenes to make sure we adhere to the 2 minutes maximum limit.

Diary of Editing 22nd March

Today we had a media lesson so again i brought my laptop in and we carried on editing. I proposed to the group that we needed to seriously cut down and even cut some scenes out completely of our opening to reach the intended 2 minutes, we all agreed this was necessary so we have started cutting out scenes and inserting credits to try  and meet the deadline for our films to be completed by (28th March).

Diary of Editing 17th March

Today Mr Oswick let us use his lesson to carry on with our coursework so I brought the tape in and we uploaded the footage we re-shot of Mitch making the tea. I have put the rendered footage onto my memory stick and will add it to the rest of the footage on my laptop when i get home.

Re-Shooting 15th March

Today me, mitch and matt went to matt's house to re-shoot the making of tea shots as when we originally filmed it mitch moved so when i cut the shot down it was jumpy and at some points he appeared out of shot so we have corrected this today and will upload it on monday when we have our next media lesson.

Diary of Editing 14th March

Today in lesson we carried on editing focusing on the kitchen scene as we can cut down a lot of time in these shots.

We have decided after some attempts to merge the scenes to look seamless that we will have to re-shoot some sections of the kitchen scene so we have signed a camera out for tomorrow and are going to Matt's house after school to film the shots and we will upload them at school when we have a lesson or a free lesson.

Diary of Editing 12th March

Today i carried on with editing for 2 and a half hours and got a substantial amount done. I have added a working title logog to the start to make our opening look more professional and realistic and have started adding credits inbetween the Don's getting ready scenes as it splits up the shots nicely and looks better than having the credits over the top of the shots. I also trimmed some shots and just generally editing to get our opening looking as smooth and professional as possible.

Diary of Editing 11th March

Today we had an inset day so i stayed at home and edited a lot of footage in the opening and am now getting stuck on the difficult sections such as cutting peoples arms out of shots that shouldn't be there and some clips this may be almost impossible so we might have to re-film some shots.

Diary of Editing 10th March

Today i brought my laptop into school as it is easier to edit on it because of the transfer issues that plague the schools network. We managed to get some editing done but there is still a good amount of hours left to get it to a level i'm satisfied with. Matt and Mitch feel unused at the moment so they are editing some of the titles at school while i focus on cutting the opening but they will give ideas and help every now and again.

Diary of Editing 9th March

Yesterday evening i imported the 2 files of our filming onto my computer when i realised that i had missed a 3 minute section out when i cut the footage into sections so today in school i have cut the section that i need out of the backup file and have imported it onto my memory stick so i can start editing at home tonight.

Diary of Editing 8th March

For the past 3 lessons we have been rendering and uploading the footage onto my memory stick for me to start editing at home on my laptop because the school computers run very slow on the network which makes it nearly impossible to get a reasonable amount of editing done in a lesson. Once i have started editing the clips at home i will bring my laptop in for future lessons instead of using the school computers.

Credits?

Today in lesson Mr Oswick told the class to make sure our film openings reflect real film openings such as credits over the shots and the film title at the end of the opening and leaving the opening on a cliffhanger. So this has made me think about our opening credits and i will have to scrap my previous opening credit ideas as i want our opening to reflect a real opening sequence as much as possible.