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.
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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.
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!!
