Monday, 15 April 2013

A Change In Editing Format

After a group discussion and with some of the technicians thoughts we came to the conclusion that we should change the editing format by creating boxes containing our edited film footage that moved across the screen at different angles and speeds. The reason for this late change was because our title sequence when initially 'finished' and without this final box affect was extremely slow and did not reflect the fast paced action sequence that we were trying to portray within the short amount of time and so consequently was not a true representation of what our film was going to be about. By using these boxes passing across the screen it speeds up the story by having multiple pieces of footage on the screen at one time so it requires the viewers attention to understand what is happening. As a group we discussed the fact that people may become bored of the passovers dragging on slightly so this editing technique really helped us to create a quick, compact and effective piece.

The editing process for this technique was complicated yet interesting as it allowed us as a group to gain a further insight into the final cut pro programme. Initially we begun by cropping a specific piece of footage and then clicking the following: Effects, Video Filters, Matte, Mask Shape. Once we had created the general box shape by cropping a clip we then created the different box shapes for each piece of footage by reducing or increasing the horizontal or vertical length of the boxes. After this was completed we then created the path the boxes would take across the screen and the speeds at which they would flow e.g left to right or bottom to top. This created the random affect which aimed to keep the audience alert as it was unclear how fast the boxes were and their path.

In order to create the speed of the box and the length that the footage was onscreen we had to adjust the gradient of the green line shown in the picture in the centre of the row of three below. Yet to create the path of the boxes we had to press a diamond shaped button, you then play the clip until you want the movement to finish and mark when it begins then click the diamond button again and then render the clip by pressing 'Apple' 'R'. We repeated these processes for both the speed and direction of each of the boxes that appeared on the screen in our title sequence which was a considerably lengthy process yet i believe that the overall product hugely benefited from the change.






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