editing continued

On our Monday lesson we continued the process of filming which entailed deducting the rest of our footage. Due to Charley not being here ,we decided that all of us would contribute to the session, as we felt that our blog posts were essentially up to date, the fundamental focus being to finish our editing. Primarily we played back our footage, as well as rewinding it afterwards to ensure that transitions were smooth and flowing to display continuity editing. Once we had looked over footage we had realised that our main issues where rooted in the primary scene due to poor lighting, as well as  the absence of smooth footage . This is because we frequently and brutally deducted footage, without taking into account the film as a whole rather than an individual frame. What we must do is experiment with slide transitions( although I'm not sure yet  how to perform this) alongside the completion of the footage, which when done can be perfected through touch ups.  Next we looked at the primary scene in terms of footage deduction, where we started off with the teddy bear and realised that we had too many frames , taken up by this prop- essentially 30  seconds as an estimation. To ensure we captured the essence of the film ( in terms of the teddy bear frames), we looked at two which were filmed under different lighting- one was bathed in a blurry red glow whereas the other had the same blurry quality but was more darker in contrast. We decided that we would keep the first frame as we felt it would invoke more fear as well as providing a contrast towards the rest of the footage in this scene - due to the burst of colour in comparison to the darker frames. Next we went back to the dream sequence where we cut several frames , predominately those which didn't look right in our piece. This included several facial expressions which had been filmed unconvincingly( which may have been a result of the numerous distractions we faced) part of the extreme closeup on my face looking frightened as it was taking up to much footage and finally our end footage, where me and Zoe are in synchronized harmonization( we cut off the very last bit as instead of ending with our heads raised high, our heads are jolted to the side to demonstrate that we are just puppets). We then transferred over to the singular frame where the canvas displays the ominous words' its coming' and decided to place it at the beginning , to immediately show the audience the genre ( fantasy/horror).  Our footage is now at 1 minute and roughly 94 seconds which means that we still need to cut out footage , as we need to put in credits as well as our title( courtesy of working title films). As we had basically finished all of our footage we decided to look at editing effects, transitions and titles quickly to give us a rough idea of what we wanted to put in. For effects we looked at several including: doors, card flip, page curl, shear and smear where we decided that the most proficient and professional was shear , which we accessed from new blue motion blend( adobe premiere software). The reason we thought shear was the others we felt although cool aesthetically, wouldn't actually appear so in our piece. We then looked at transitions and effects( colour) to which we thought were extremely tacky, although i did like the colour use of the line drawing but the others did not think the same. I thought it would look quite good at the beginning to introduce the film , for example when the titles appear, or perhaps at the end where the credits are rolling. Finally we looked at titles and picked out the best ones( though I'm hoping its possible that we can cut our experimentation credits in) and found that we liked music video text, night vision and blue notes credits. I have had a quick idea and thought that perhaps in the beginning we can have an old fashioned 1900's film opening where there is a black and white circle with a countdown inside it ( I'm not sure what its called) transcending into our title, or perhaps the title and then the countdown. This could be accompanied by a ticking clock to represent the passing of time, a key film within our film.