Evaluation of Planning

Evaluation of Editing 

It was our first lesson editing our short stories in which we had already filmed (on a flip camera) and created a storyboard for. We loaded our various video clips into IMovie on a Mac computer and were told to trim each clip to the length wanted. To do this you simply click and drag the mouse over the section of the clip you do not want, and press delete. After doing this we dragged the clips into the top left-hand side of IMovie, ensuring the clips were in correct order and flowed accordingly e.g the match on action scene (actor walking through the door) had to look continuous and realistic. There were quite a few jump cuts between different scenes that we had filmed, this did not have a certain purpose or a desired effect so we could have included different transitions between scenes to make it more interesting and effective. 

Next we added opening titles and finishing credits. We were able to select the desired designs such as colour and font. We put the title ‘The Thing Is...’ with a flash effect to draw attention. We had some trouble with the credits as we found the names were going too fast for the audience to have been able to read them properly. We tried extending the clip time but this only added to the amount of black at the end of all the names. To fix this we created a separate finishing credits clip of the same design and copied half the names from the other clip, which worked out better.

We were also able to change the speeds of the clips, making them faster or slower (slow/fast motion) to the correct speed of our choice. We made the final clip slow motion as it allowed a clearer and more exaggerated view of the male actors emotions for the audience. 

Lastly we were able to add sound effects. The first sound effect that we added was the sound of a heart-beat over the part of the sequence in which we wanted to create and build the most tension. We layered the heartbeat with a fairly distressing tone to this, so the audience were aware that something not so good was probably about to happen. We also added the music to the ending credits and first few clips to add detail for the audience and also to muffle any background sounds accidentally picked up during filming (although the actors could still clearly be heard as we changed the volume level of the added sounds.)