Day 9 of Editing

During day 9 of editing we re-filmed the voice over but with another persons voice, so that it wouldn't clash with another characters voice. whilst filming the voice over again, we had to film it a few time as some of  pauses were either too quick or too long, so we had to film it a few times, so that it would fit well with the opening. We filmed the voice over on a voice recorder, then uploaded the footage onto our email and downloaded it onto the computer then onto the film. After we uploaded the footage, we then had to decide where to put the voice over, in which will fit with action shown in the film. we decided to put the voice over when Bronte is on her way into school and stops just before the closeup shot of her walking down the corridor. However putting the voice over  does making the timing out of place, because as Bronte introduces herself, she walks along out of the shot too quickly, losing focus on the interaction between the female character and the audience. Also the timing in which Oliver enters into the shot, the voice over doesn't really connect with the male protagonist as shown, and this will make the audience bit confused on what to focus on. However the voice suited as the she started to talk about starting her new school, and this is complimented by her signing in, by writing her name in the book, and as she explores the displays shown on the wall, showing her interest. Also we had to put our non diegetic soundtrack in as well so that it wouldn't overpower the voice over, by this we kept the soundtrack playing, all throughout the opening and just adjusted the volume so that the voice over and the dialogue could be heard at the same time. To adjust the volume of both soundtrack and voiceover, we had to go on the side with icon where next to the where the soundtrack and the voice over was place in order a yellow line to appear which helps to control the volume levels of the soundtrack and the voiceover. so in this we made the voice over really loud, so that it would be the main focus could be on the introduction on the female protagonist, and the non diegetic sountrack would be complimenting it at the same time.

Day 8 of Editing

During day 8 of editing, we filmed the voice over first hand by Hayley, and we put it into our opening scene, when putting it with the opening, we had to adjust the volume of the other footage in order to make sure we could hear the voice overtaking place. we also decided to place the voice over near where the protagonist started walking towards the camera with a closeup shot. we decided to put the voiceover there because it will allow the audience to engage with female protagonist and it will let them in on personal level on her life and what has happened in the past. This will also let the audience be involved in the film. The voice over lasted for about 30 seconds, so we faded them in and out in order to let some of the dialogue to be include when the non diegetic sound will be playing quietly in the background. We then render the footage to see how the it looked overall in the film. However we had to re-film the voice-over because we thought that it sound too similar to another characters voice, so filming it again but with another voice so it doesn't clash with another characters voice during the opening.

Day 7 of Editing

During the seventh day, we decided that we had to add in the soundtrack to make sure we had picked the right one. Once placing it into adobe premiere elements 10 we had to find the best place to put it. We decided that we were not going to start the music straight away but as the female protagonist starts walking to school. We had to fade in the music so it wasn't abrupt. The difficulty which we experienced through this was trying to get the background noise to not be as loud. We spent around 10 minutes trying to find away to lower the volume. Once we eventually found the way to do this, we made sure that the volume of the background noise could still be heard but also so the music was still the main feature. We then had to stop the soundtrack in a certain place so that when the characters begin talking they could be heard. We done this by fading out the music in time for when the first character begins to talk. This proved quite effective but was also a difficult task at the time. We then had to place the soundtrack back into the film once the dialogue was finished. Seeing as we had previously done this it wasn't as difficult this time. Once we had added in the soundtrack and thought that it was in a suitable place we had to create production credits. We found a picture on Google of an old camera. We saved this image and put it into two frames. We then added the effect of black and white onto the first frame and added the transition additive dissolve where it changed the black and white image to colour. We then had to add in a title underneath the picture so we had our own production credit. We were pleased with the outcome and finally rendered the footage to make sure it went well with each other without any jumps.

Day 6 of Editing

During the sixth day of editing we continued with adding titles into our footage on top of the black shot. This meant that the titles would be clearly seen. We adapted the titles into different font and different sizes to make sure we felt that the titles were suitable. We also changed the colour of the font back to white because we felt like white could be more effective in fitting the conventions of a romance film. White could represent innocence and purity which is what we are trying to portray in our female protagonist. We moved the titles around on the black shot to see if they were placed in the right place. We then had to faded them in and out, each time making sure we were rendering the footage so it was not jumpy. We then had to add in transitions to the story of the film to make sure each clip flowed into the next with no jump cuts. We found that adding in the black shots made the film run over the allocated time and so had to crop some of the footage down. This involved making sure that the film still made sense with some footage being cropped. We found this part quite difficult because we had to still make sure that the film would make sense but also so that it was in the time limit. We ended up having to crop some bits out but also adding them back in and cropping another section out because we thought that it seemed better with the original clip.

Day 5 Editing

During day 5 of editing we continued to experimenting with displaying the titles in our opening 2 minutes. We had decided to create some black blank shots so that we could display some of the titles for example introducing the director and editor, then introduce the character. The font that we used for the titles was adobe casalon pro, using size 54 as the font as this look most appropriate for the display in the shot. We decide to use this font because it would suit the conventions of a romance film,by having this italic bold font. It would also make the appearance of the titles easier for the audience to read and identify the production behind the film. We then looked at different colours which we could add to the titles. The first colour choice was black for the titles because we thought it would show up well for some of the titles which will show up on the location of where we have filmed, However it would suit the convention of a romance film as the black would present as more sharp and so we changed it white as it represent innocence and purity, so this would link to the storyline as it will show the atmosphere of what the audience should be expecting. We then decide to add a hint of pink to represent the the couple who will be shown in the film, it represent more of blossom of love will occur between the couple which the audience will expect to see.    

Camera

The camera which we are using to film with is the Sony Handy-cam DCR-DVD92e. This camera comes with basic features but it has a good quality of filming. Some of these features are:

•  Zoom
• A back light
• A built in speaker
• Microphone
• Option to take pictures
• Flip screen 
• Playback mode
• Disk -No memory card

By having a disk, this could cause some problems because if the disk is not properly installed then the footage will be lost. I know with the camera that you have to finalise the footage which means that you cannot record anything onto the disk after. This means that everything which we film must be right whilst on the camera. 

The other features will help us to get the best quality that we can because we will be able to add more lighting if necessary and also try out zooming. The speaker will allow us to hear what we have recorded straight away and also the microphone will help us get a clear sound.​

Day 4 of Editing

During the fourth day of editing, we had to swap the layout of the titles so they could fit in with the genre. We chose to use the font Adobe Caslon Pro with the effect of bold italics. This was an effective way to show the titles whilst the film is playing. We changed the colour of the titles to white because we thought that this was the best colour to represent innocence and the characteristics of the protagonist being naive. We added more titles into the film to show the cast and also the points of who directed it and edited the footage. After we done this, we decided that adding a plain black shot would be effective to get the titles to stand out. We created the black shot using photoshop. We then placed the black shot into our film to the place where we thought it was suitable. We also used the black shot for the main title of our film because we thought that if we done it this way, we could fade the text 'The Lost Locket' in and out of the film. Once we had faded the text we rendered the clip to prevent it becoming jumpy.