Editing!

Now that we have completely finished filming, we have continued to edit all of our clips together, and have added visual effects, music and sound effects. 

After re-filming certain clips we had a lot more angles to play around with, meaning we could add more cuts etc. This made the flashbacks much more realistic, and made a lot of difference to the previous long clips we had, which were pretty boring. However, as we had filmed in a lot of different locations, we found that the lighting was different in some clips compared to others. This problem was easily solved as we changed the contrast of the clips to match each other. Also, we added an effect called 'Old World' to the flashback clips which helps to give the impression that they are memories from the past. We were happy with the outcome of this, as we had wanted to achieve something similar after being inspired by the ending of Sherlock Holmes.

Example: 

BEFORE

    

AFTER   

After we had finished editing the clips, it was time to add some music. 

We knew that our music would have to be Royalty Free so we started to look at some Royalty Free websites. We found it difficult to agree on an appropriate soundtrack, but all liked the idea of using a piano piece. We eventually came across a piece of music we thought would fit well with our film opening sequence. However, we needed the music to sound more sinister to fit with our theme, therefore we added another soundtrack over the top which resembled to low drones, creating an eerie effect. 

Piano piece:  CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OF WINTER piano solo MP3

Second audio layer: http://www.mediafire.com/?5zmpzm68ah38quf 

Watching the footage with the music over the top made it look so much more professional and interesting! Our last task was to add the credits using our previously chosen fonts, this was a particularly tricky task as we found it difficult to get the timings correct but we were very happy with the overall outcome!! 

Production logo!

Now that we are coming to the end of our filming, it is time to start drafting our production logo! 
We have all agreed that we want to include an image of an eye within the logo, to come up with some production names we typed 'vision' into the online thesaurus, these are our favourite ideas we found:

• conception
• perspective
• prescience
• standpoint

We also found pipe dream quite an effective name.


–noun

any fantastic notion, hope, or story

 We decide to try creating a production logo on photoshop, however it was far to friendly and did not relate to the genre of our film opening sequence. We drifted away from the image of an eye idea, and created a piece taking the words literally 'pipe' and 'dream' The image included fun colours and child-friendly pictures which contrasts with our film idea and doesn't relate successfully. 

Therefore we went back to the online thesaurus to see if we had missed any other interesting names. 
We found the definition of Foresight and thought 'Foresight productions' was really effective, and we could go back to including the image of an eye. We found an image of an eye on 'free images' this way no copyright would occur.

Together we agreed that the eye itself should be the main focus, so we blacked out certain areas.

We thought this could be made a little more defined and 'creepy' looking. Therefore after playing around with different brushes, Alice managed to cleverly create and eyelash effect. We made the eyelashes white so they would stand out and contrast against the black background. 

We were all really pleased with the outcome and needed to find the perfect font and style for the production names title! Conveniently Alex has a variety of fun fonts on her personal laptop which we could chose from. Alex put together this sample of fonts for our logo...

 

After a lot of experimenting we finally decided that this was the perfect font for our production logo which will appear at the beginning of our film opening...