Today we completed our final movie opening and exported it! We began the editing session by searching for music, we had discovered during our editing for the preliminary task (which we edited on imovie) that another program, imovie, had some good sound effects and uncomplicated slow drones which we decided to use again in our main task. We saved a selection of the drones to the desktop and imported them into final cut ready to be dragged into the timeline.
After recording our voice over and dragging it into the timeline we began to play through the film to observe where the voice over would be best suited. We then discovered that the voice over and sound of the poloroid camera flash clashed so made the decision to split up the voice over so it braked when the noise of the flash sounded.We then cut the voice over again so that it had two more breaks within it to make way for conflicting sounds in the video.
Once the voice over was complete and in a position we all agreed with, we began to discuss the position of the drones. We agreed that it should begin during the first few seconds (as did the voice over) but we wanted to create and capture the haunting lone voice to begin with so decided to begin the drone a few seconds after the start of the voice over.
We then reviewed again and watched the film opening through, as we were moving through the film with the scroll tool, we saw that one particular part of the film worked really well in slow motion! The moment when Ellie turns to look and see if she's being followed. The way she turns round caused her hair to flick which was really emphasised in slow-mo. We cut the clip twice to select the hair flick singularly and set about slowing it down (modify>speed) we decided that 40% time would be slow enough. I feel this worked well because it gives the audience a chance to see the victims face in full, while also adding drama and suspense.
We cumulatively decided that there should be another piece of music during the opening as it didn't have any sense of suspense building with only the voice over and drone as a sound track. We looked at various online sites and came across a website (incompetech.com) with quite a few more tension building horror scores. We decided on a track called 'house of leaves' and downloaded and imported it into final cut. Our next task was to position the track at a suitable point. We tried it in various places but in the end decided that it should begin with the first kind of up tempo chase scene about mid-way through. We cut the score so it finished with the video and then set about finding a single drum beat for the slam of the book at the end. Again we looked at various sites but found our drum beat on 'free sound', we then imported it and added it into the timeline at the end.
Our next task will be to start planning and looking at some topics to include in our evaluation of the entire project.
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