Adobe Premier Pro.

The whole of our group was involved in the editing process, and therefore we have created an editing log showing this. For the main part of the editing process, we used the programme Adobe Premier Pro. before moving onto iMovie at a later stage.

After using Adobe in our AS year, we were all very familiar with the workings of the timeline and the different precision editing tools available, as well as the many audio and video effects and transitions. This helped us to work through the footage that we had collected - swiftly but thoroughly - to create a smaller amount of footage that we would later use for our teaser trailer.

Once this small amount of footage was in place, we could go about using the razor tool to slice it perfectly by zooming in on the timeline. We could then break down all of our footage and move it around the timeline with the cursor tool to change the ordering.

We could also unlink the original audio from the video and remove this, before adding our soundtrack to the trailer. This meant we could then focus on fitting the cuts and movement exactly to the tempo of the music. As well as this, we could add multiple effects to create different colouring in the shots, such as making the red particularly stand out against the wooded areas.

Once we had used all of the available tools to our advantage and created our First Cut, we could then, after audience feedback, transfer our production to the Mac's for iMovie to add titles and DVD menu's.

Soundtrack

In our foundation portfolio production we found it difficult to find uncopyrighted music to use as a soundtrack, and we also had no access to Apple Mac's at our sixth form. However, this year we have been much more fortunate with the Media department now having Mac's that we can use, and also a source for uncopyrighted music: Steven Scott (who will be credited).

After we had our main structure of footage, we played around with one of Steven Scott's tracks that we particularly liked, and cut it up into smaller sections of different tempos so that we could mix around the order and fade them together. We chose two main sections of the track: an upbeat section for the faster areas of the trailer, and a slower and much quieter section to help build tension. We then added this audio, as well as the pre-recorded audio of the newsreader to our rough structure so that we could edit the transitions to match up with the beat of the music.

We linked the faster paced sections of music to the shots in which we had altered the length and sped up the movements, and also to the sections in which our characters were running (disequilibrium). The slower sections we then added to the tension-building beginning of our trailer in the equilibrium stages, as well as at the end of the trailer as a fade out.

We could then finish editing our teaser trailer with more precision based on the soundtrack that we had altered from one of our uncopyrighted tracks.

Initial Website Planning

As a group, we spent one lesson in class deciding on the basic components of our website.

The basic pages our group decided to include are as follows:

- Homepage
- Synopsis
- Cast & Crew
- Gallery
- Downloads
- Soundtrack

We decided on a basic yet effective colour scheme of black, white, red and greys as this would create cohesion with both our teaser trailer and our other products (e.g. poster and DVD cover).

Here is the uploaded spider diagram of our basic group planning for the website...

We then combined our initial ideas of the homepage layout and came up with four possible designs:

After exploring Google Sites, we decided that we wanted to use Macromedia Dreamweaver (See Emma's previous post about Google Sites) to create our homepage, so I set about creating the pages we had decided on. I then set up a title area and left hand menu system on all pages, and created working hyperlinks between the appropriate pages of the website. After changing the colour of the backgrounds I added in basic titles that can be changed at a later date if necessary.

When the website homepage is completed, I will take screenshots and upload them to our blog to show the final design of our own homepage.

DVD Cover

Having a DVD cover is an essential to any film since it advertises the product, therefore we thought it is a must. As you can see below is our finished DVD Cover



I created the DVD Cover by using Adobe Photoshop CS5 this abled me to edit and add effects to our DVD cover i included all our institutional information, certificate, title of film, quotes, DVD bonus feature, Specifications etc, all the forms and conventions of a real DVD Cover. I tried to make a authentic and genuine as possible trying to keep to the same colour scheme as all our ancillary products.

These are the variety of photos i used within our dvd cover to give it an authenticity of our film and of a genuine DVD cover.

CHLOE WITHIN FOREST


DISTORTED CHLOE RUNNING


ABANDONED SWINGS


I used different all the different images above since I thought they all showed loss and isolation, because of the location displaying lots of open scenery and also the vulnerability of our protagonist running away, looking back at the camera.