Opening Sequence Final 'Live To Dance'

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Self Assessment Worksheet 14.02.11

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Blog Update: Editing 08.02.11

Today we focused on sound in editing. We spent our double lesson looking at GarageBand and some of the sound effects it has, that we could use in our opening sequence. We really wanted an audience sound in our piece as the shows started, and we found this in GarageBand and was able to use it in our piece. it sounds good and fits in well with our footage. We also planned to sort out all our dialogue today, but with some complications, we still have a bit of work to do on this, but have next mondays double lesson to do so. We managed to get our footage down to the maximum time length and we are still currently trying to work out a few bits of footage to fit together, where we have cut lots of footage. Additionally we adapted our ending to our opening sequence, and changed the last bit by cutting the last scene we had. This is because it took up time and it wasn't really essential to have included. It now looks better than it did before, with a fade out to white after the dance show piece, following text '8 months before...' rather than another scene, which was needed.

Blog Update: Editing (Lesson discussion) 01.02.11

Blog Update: Editing (Transitions) 31.01.11

Today we have continued to edit as a group, focusing more on cutting our footage to the best we can and adding transitions. I looked closely at the editing of our main scene and tried out different cuts and transitions which could fit, to make it flow more where we had to cut some footage. For our main scene we filmed several versions of the same scene but in one, so when we edited it and did the shot reverse shot it meant that we was able to just cut in between and get an effective shot reverse shot. We experimented with many transitions, however once we looked at our examples of other opening sequences to dance films from our genre research, we realised that the majority didn't include many transitions. The one which our piece relates most to is 'Step Up 2' because they use a few transitions and the ones used are similarly to what we have used in our work i.e. zoom, fade to black and fade to white. Next lesson we need to carry on from where we left off.

Blog Update: Editing 25.01.11

Today we continued editing our work on iMovie and here is a screen grab to show some of the editing that was completed. We began to look at transitions but focused more on cutting all our footage to the appropriate lengths and we cut our shot reverse shot. During this editing we realised that the voiceover was longer than we wanted it to be and this caused problems with our timing, because the whole thing has got to be a 2 minute piece. With our voiceover over 1 minute we had to add in extra footage of the dancers at the beginning to fit with the voiceover. Even though we had more footage after the voiceover, which was our main scene, we couldn't start it without the voiceover finishing,s o we had to work around this, trying to keep as best in the time limit as we could. We also adapted the colour to the footages that appear, while the voicer and music is playing, to black and white. This is because having the colour in black and white gives the impression that it's showing flash backs and past moments, which is what we were looking for. By the end of todays double lesson all our footage was rough-cut and we had everything in order to start editing in more depth next lesson.

Blog Update: Editing 24.01.11

Today we began our editing and to make a good start to this editing process we each took turns on iMovie and took on different roles. My role was to complete a rough cut of our footage, after David uploaded the footage, and i put them all in the correct order they need to be. Here is a screenshot of iMovie, and our rough cut, including the footage we have uploaded today, and it shows that we have put it into an order. David, Andrew and me then started to look at titles and effects and made a good title page to open our opening sequence. After experimenting more with iMovie, I can use it better and i am now more confident in exploring my ideas and trying new things. We also had a little look at Livetype and created some animated text on this. We still have a lot of editing to do in the following lessons, like sound, transitions, text etc...