January 5th

We continued editing it in today's lesson as we were unable to in the christmas holidays. We only had a few more clips to cut and place onto the timeline. We had to make some of the clips lighter as they came out too dark when we put them into Final Cut Express, so we edited and adjusted the colour levels after we finished cutting our clips. The use of black and white for the night scenes we feel is powerful and works really well, sneakily giving the illusion of night time and adding a darker, sinister atmosphere to the scene.
Seeing as all of our clips were cut down, positioned correctly and linked together, we decided now it would be a good time to add music to our film opening. Our chosen music clips were not long enough to carry out for the whole of our film, so we looped some of the music together. some of the music we had repeated did not suit certain parts of our film so we searched for some other suitable previews on iTunes. The ambient sounds in some of the clips is too loud and diverts from the narrative, so next lesson our intention to solve this concern.
There are various things that we plan to continue in the upcoming lessons, including the film name (logo), production companies, credits and the transitions. only tasks that need completing now are the credits, film name, production companies and the transitions. As a group we decided on the font and colour- red on a black backdrop as we feel this fits perfectly in with the dark theme of the film, blood, death and also links into the idea of the red hig heels (the main element of our narrative) which we plan to import into Final cut Express from a memory stick.
Next lesson we plan on completing all of the elements of our final film i mentioned previously due to the fact that we are presenting and showing our final film opening in class on Monday 9th January. I look forward to this as it allows us to get feed back from fellow class mates and our teacher, which may help, hearing different peoples perspective of our piece, allowing us hopefully to improve elements which may have gone un noticed. We may also receive inspiration from other groups openings which we could use in our favour to improve our film.