Editing part 4

Today we watched our production and whilst we are very pleased with it we still feel like it's missing something. After having a play around with some of the effects we found that we liked the 'blink effect' on final cut. We decided to put this effect all over our first opening scenes of the religious iconography. We thought that the 'blink effect' would be suitable for our production as it brings forward a sense of instability which could then be representative of our main character.

Editing part 3

Today we decided to watch our production from start to finish to see how it was looking. We were really pleased with how the soundtrack went with the footage but we thought we needed to make it look just a bit more special. After many discussions on what we could do, we decided to make the blood drip off the rosary beads in slow motion to make it seem just that more sinister. Once we had done this we were much happier with how our footage was looking.

Adding More Sounds

Previous to today the only sound we had on our production was the gospel style music which we found on garageband. Whilst this music works well with our production we thought we should add some other sound effects.
The first sound effect we added was a creepy style music track. We added this to our production at the beginning when the production company titles appear as we felt it would unnerve our audience straight away which is typical for a teen horror film.
The next sound effect we added was a deep bell sound. This sound was added to the production titles, the distribution titles and the title of the film. We chose to add a bell sound as we thought that this would once again reinforce the religious theme of our production.
Finally we added a piano track to the final scenes of our production. We felt like we should add enough soundtrack to our end scenes as we wanted the last scenes to make an impact.

Garageband

Today we added some eerie music to our production which we downloaded from freesound.org. However, we didn't feel like this fitted our production as well as we were hoping it would. So we then decided to see if we could make anything more suitable on garage band. After a little play around we found some music which sounded sinister and also had a gospel feel to it which fits very well with the religious theme of our production. After we had added a few more instruments to the gospel music we had the perfect soundtrack to our production.

Titles for our production

Today we decided to make our titles for our production. Before we even began we decided to watch a teenage horror film to see what titles usually go at the beginning of one. We decided to watch 'I still know what you did last summer'. We liked how in the film the first titles which appeared were simple white font on a simple black background. We decided to incorporate this idea into our production. So now our production begins with the production company and the distribution company names wrote in a simple white font on a simple black background. We made the titles on Livetype as this is the most effective way of making good titles.
We then made the name of the film titles. We chose the font 'cracked' as we thought this would portray the cracks in the murderer's character and would show her instability. We chose a smoky background as we though this would give a mysterious eerie feel to our production. We then chose to make the letter 'L' in religious, red as we thought this would bring forward the sense of danger and blood. We then added a sideways 'l' to come in at the end of the title as then it looks like a religious cross which is sticking to the religious theme of our production. This title comes in after our production and distribution company titles.
We then added various other titles throughout our production such as the executive producer and names of the actors. We stuck to the cracked font and smoky background in all of them. We didn't put any capital letters in the names of the people as we thought this would make it look young which would then appeal to a teenage audience.

Editing part 2

Today we downloaded our religious iconography footage and then edited it in to our previous footage. We have now reached the expected time. Our production is quite different to our original storyboard due to adding new footage and changing some of the order however we are pleased with the end result. Now we have the basic sequence we can add titles and effects.