Moving Image Entry 12 - Kevin Ross:

Date:04/04/2014
Module: Moving Image El342
Kent University

Team 07:

vp216 - Viknesh Prabhakar
kr278 - Kevin Ross
cb595 - Connor Brown
Tws6 - Thomas Stowell

Research:

For Wednesday the 02/04/2014 we had agreed on Researching different techniques that we could use in our editing process for our film. We would be focusing on sound effects transitions and text display.

We wanted to do this so that we could make our scenes transition fluidly since some of the rough cut scenes are completely different from the previous. However This part of research was left mainly left for Tom to do since when we worked on editing he was mainly on the computer whilst I worked with him on the sound and giving advice or input ideas.

 Furthermore, being in charge of the titles and end credits I wanted to look up how to give these titles a sheen animated effect. After research I found this YouTube tutorial on how to give a professional look to our title. We will make our whole background for it black since sometimes basic looks more appealing and then sheen will come across:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ2j-KSTh7s

Further research I did consisted In looking at how to effectively edit the sound of our movie. Now for this I needed to learn how to remove background sound since it was interfering with some of our scenes. Once I did this I also looked into how to make sounds fade out and in and how to apply my own sound effects to the scenes. The reason we wanted a fade out effect in our film was so that the background music didn't just disappear from the scene however it gradually goes away.
As for adding these background sounds and effects it is simple, we only need to add another sound layer to our project drag the sound file into it and modify its lengths and properties accordingly.

Editing:

People that turned up: Once again only Thomas and myself turned up for this editing process and the others were not present to aid us. Viknesh did make an appearance hours in however he wasn't there to help but to use the computers however he did take a look at our work.


As far as editing goes, on Wednesday we focused on applying our transition effects onto the rough cut to see how fluid the final aesthetics of our film appeared to be. We wanted to focus on transitions before any other edit since it determined whether wed need more scenes whereas the sound and title are going to be used no matter what the rough cut appears to be like.




We edited the film in a chronological sequence, starting from the beginning making our way to the end. By the end of that day we wanted a fully edited film as far as transitions so that we could finalize the rest of our edit the next day and hand the film in for assessment. Fir the next day we agreed on researching on sound and title effects since that's what we would be working on.
 

As far as the transitions went , we used a whole variety; For instants at the beginning of our film where Dom is opening his eye after the title roles we used a fade in from black transition because it gave that effect of light coming into your eyes as you wake in a lit room. Furthermore since our title has a black background it worked effectively. Another scene which needed a transition was the point of after the phone call to where Dom was walking out of his room This was because before he leaves his room his is less undressed than when he leaved, this gave the feeling that some time had transitioned and he now was leaving the room.

Two other major transition required in our film were from where we see Dom walking down a street and then cuts into walking down a  forest pathway. Since the two do not go together we used a dissolve fade which made it appear as that some time had transpired introducing a whole new area.

Leading from this, soon after Dom would be jumping into the pond to kill himself and then would teleport in time. For this we used a fade to white transition from the point of jumping to the point of where we will add SFX and him coming back out of the pond. This fade to white was used since it blurs out what is transpiring and gives way on the viewer to focus on the sounds to tell what is happening. After the fade to white had occurred we had a slow-mo scene of him looking back at the pond as if he didn't jump in. (This is where we will include SFX for the teleport sound as if he went back or ahead in time.)


Overall both Tom and myself worked effectively and by the end of that day we felt we had learnt new ways of editing and making the film appear more consistent and professional.