Editing Credtis

Today during academic mentoring I made the final adjustments on the credits which involved; splitting up the actors names throughout the sequence in the order that the characters appear, adding last names to the credits for the actors and lastly rotating the credits and adding shadows to superimpose them into the scene. This was all achieved in Adobe Premier's title creator/editor.

Title

Due to our media room getting robbed I used the old iMacs with the programme Live Type to create the title for our groups opening sequence. The title of our opening sequence is Graves and the font that is used is an adaption of the Stencil font. I chose the title to have a white shadow in order to give it the feel of street graffiti, this is because in some graffiti stencils are used in order to mark out words. I chose to have the graffiti style even though the genre is detective as I felt that with the fight scene it gave the sequence a feel of street crime due to the actors having the stereotypical "street thug" costume.

Editing

Due to our original film being shot in the snow and our pick up shots being shot in the dry we had to apply a colour correction filter to our pick up shots in order for the clips to look similar. We had play around with the  RGB colour wheel as well as the sliders to enhance the whites and the blacks in the clip in order to make it look similar to the colour of the shots in the snow. This blended the clip into the rest of the scene, therefore making the scene flow seamlessly.

Editing

Over the past week we have been working on analytically selecting the clips for our opening sequence. From this we then developed a hierarchy for the work to be completed, this is ; 1. Sequence, 2. Monologue, 3. Credits, 4. Soundtrack, 5. Logo. In my opinion I feel that we are making sufficient progress on the opening sequence and we are overcoming the problems that we find with some of our shots. Overall I feel that the sequence should be completed by the end of next week.