Editing/ research

We really felt that in this lesson  we used our time efficiently and it was extremely beneficial in completing our tasks which were set for today, as well as additional research and findings.Primitively we began analysing the rendering of our video , checking to see where we needed to make adjustments and experimentations in our sequences ( Luckily the video had successfully rendered which enabled easy veiwing of the video which made it seem as though the sequences were flowing into each other). Primarily we noticed after watching the full clip, that we needed to cut the end frame which entails a bear which is inordinately dark in contrast , as it didn't flow in comparison to the rest of the movie. After we had made this minor adjustment we watched it again from the start , where whilst watching it Zoe had the ideal of having little sections of words or phrases[ appropriate prior to the film] before the main title of ' It's Coming' which we all immensely liked the sound of immeadiately . This is because it could give the audience a sense of solving a puzzle , for example if we had the words ' she's watching you' ( perhaps we can announce it in narrative in a sinister manner or maybe inaudible and abrupt) when i have my back turned in the grass and when she is behind me, the phrase' look behind you' of course these are just quick ideas, so these exact words may not be used and we are not sure whether as to cooperate this ideal or not.  She also thought that if we had ' its coming over the footage as well. Perhaps we can expand on this idea and have it repeated as a whisper throughout the film ( a voiceover?) , increasing in tempo the closer it gets to the end of the film . However im not sure as to if it would seem incoherent, especially since we are using background music anyway but we can try it and see whether it fits. Also Charley thought of having our title sequence at the end which does subvert traditional movie discourse but it could enagage the audiences attention more easily. Maybe when it gets to this section in the film, we could put in a recorded sound of me screaming as the title is apparant, to shows the ultimate possesion of my character. It could also provide a more ambigious ending which is what our film is all about as throughout the film the watchers are constantly having to piece together the narrative, as the implicature is not clear.  She also thought of the  having our names alongside a characters whilst the action is playing, to just go straight into the movie, quickening the pace of our footage as well as clearly identifying who is who. This is because we are all playing characters different to our actual selves so the audience is able to distinguish the differences between all of our roles. As well as this it generally makes our film look more asthetic an dprofessional in it's mannerisisms. We thought that a good place to put them was after the frame where me and Zoe are slung to the side as this provides a sense of dubiety as well as introducing the start of the film.   We also decided on no credits as these are usually used at the end of the film.  We then reffered back to the idea of the old fashioned countdown  but werent sure as to whether it was a form of copyright, so we checked with Mr Oswick and he adjucated that it wasn't.  An imput of a ticking noise of while this countdown is occuring, i think would be excellent as it would synchronize perfectly. Instantly we found one which although different from our previous findings( this one was brown in it's hue instead of black and white) actually had more of an impact as had poor quality due to the static nature of the sequence. However it was very impressive and we really feel that if we can somehow embed it on to Premeire then it would really show that we have pushed boundaries( as at the moment we are not even sure that it is possible to do) Charley stated that instead of using it at the start of the film we could use it to start the dream sequence, to trick the audience into thinking its the end of the film but in fact it's only just began...  I really feel that our groups imput of ideas are very immersive and although we dont use all of the ideas imputted, we do expand on the ideas which is what we need to keep doing, in order to focus completely on our piece.  We then borrowed headphones from Mr Oswick so we could listen to our footage and found that we needed to blank space our background sound ( due to captured shots which actually had immense audiobility of laughing in the background), so we thought that it would be a good idea if we asked  Laura from Year 13 ( a current media student) to show us  how to do it. Whilst we were waiting though we thought we would search in Google: How to edit something from YouTube on to Adobe but unfortunately it came up with invalid results so we decided to move on for now and look at our Youtube favourites which we did in a lesson last year( in terms of music soundracks). Firstly we looked at ' Broken Music Box' which was 1 minute 30 seconds, which we listened to twice and realised that it wasn't extremely relevant prior to our film narrative as it was very harmonic and melodic instead of the sinister dark edged feel we were hoping to invoke.  Next we looked at  ' Haunted Music Box' ( 1 minute 31 seconds)  which on the contrary was  abominal despie being high pitched in it's tone but this made it seem more sinister. The use of the pace within it was profoundly clever as it was slow which like it's namesake seemed haunting and generally gives the audience an indication of the genre. We then listened to the audio of ' Scary Music Box'  that had  a steadier and faster paced rhythm with a mixture of what seemed windchimes and xylophones. Miss gave us valuable advice and said that personally he preferred the latter as she believes that a slower rhythm increases tension more than a faster one as it seems more negatively composed in repsonse. We agreed as we like the overall effect that it gave us, as it really emotionally challenges you, making you think.  Finally we looked at another audio file which was ' The Teddy Bear's picnic' Played on the accordian but after a few seconds of listening we thought we would just use the 'Haunted Music Box' as out of the three we thought this was the most relevant and frightening.  After we asked Miss Martin if it was possible to use as again we werent sure as to whether it was copyright and again we got given the same response that we were able to use it in our footage. Our next step was to download the file ( as well as trying to upload the 'Working Title Cooperate logo' ) by trying the following sites:

• Downloadconvertvideo.com which successfully converted the file but when we tried - file , open with , Media Player it told us that we were not able to perform these actions
• Videotomp4.com
• FLVTO.com
• Onlinevideoconverter.com where we video converted and found out that the website was blocked so we tried the conversion to Mp4 which again didnt work. So for the Working Title Logo we adjucated that we would do that at home. However this did result in the successful conversion of the ' Haunted Music Box but exeeded the power limits. This was not a problem though as we simply switched over headphones( using Charley's instead of Zoe's ) and found that it had transferred over to Adobe.

 A quick thought, we will have to somehow get the music soundtrack to play twice and then cut at the end as we have only gow 1 minute rougly 1 minute and 50 seconds of film footage so we will work this out at a later date .

As a final note here are some things we can try next lesson

• Search white noise as we watched our friends peliminary task which incooperated this method which is similuar to( as  I was disscusing in my last blog) ' The Ring'
• Blank background sound ( which later in the day we asked Laura about this and she showed us a step by step guide to doing it, so hopefully she will email Mr Oswick as we feel that other Media students should be able to access this vital piece of information).
• Perhaps as stated by Hannah, darken the contrast of the dream sequence
• Tweak audio levels in appropriation to the frames
• Finish the animatic( we should try doing this first as it is the most sinificacant)
• Try and add title sequences
• Timeline instead of sceneline and see as to if this has a dramatic effect on our piece