Sound design, editing and organisation
- 2. Sound Design When editing my opening sequence I decided to use a soundtrack to go over the top of the original sounds I recorded in the clips. Towards the end of the track I cut it to the right length and then added a fade so that it wasn’t an abrupt stop which lets the audience know the video is coming to an end. When I first put it in, I put it in at the very start of the film clips but eventually decided against that due to the fact it didn’t fit with the action going on around it and therefore started it at the point where the action properly begins. I didn’t include any diegetic sound due to the fact I already had natural sounds from the clips.
- 3. Editing When editing my opening sequence I used text layered over the top of my clips. This was to let the audience know about who the characters were and who the casting list was. I put them into an ordered which best kept to the match on action and continuity of the opening sequence, this also helped to establish a storyline better as if it was muddled no one would understand it. I had to change the contrast and brightness settings on the last few clips due to poor visibility. I also included titles in-between clips to further explain my plot.
- 4. Organisation In order to have all the right clips and not lose them, I sorted them into various folders so that I kept all the clips I did on one day in the same place. This made it easy for me to find the correct video’s to put into Vegas to cut and merge with the other clips. In order to allow for easier rendering and saving, I saved all my clips in the media E drive. This also meant that when I came back to editing the clips, they hadn’t been lost due to missing clips etc.