Evaluation Task 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Coursework: Editing 3

Overall, we had to drafts of our titles. The first attempt was done very quickly and we didn't really like how it looked. At first we placed our titles in the middle of the screen. The length of each title was different as we used a rule that in the time when title is on the screen you should be able to read it out quickly three times. We have put our own names in the titles and the names of our actors. We called our production company PACCBET, the meaning of which is a bit tricky: it means sunrise if you read it on Russian. The name of the movie was chosen as  White Noise. We thought that it is catchy, links with music and creates a mystery.

However we then decided to change the titles and the product itself. The last part, when the DJ receives an email was decided to cut out as it didn't work. So the actual opening ended on moving shot fading in black. The titles were also changed. The names of the actors were moved to the left bottom corner and others to the right one. Also, we added more names which we made up to fulfill it
The name of the movie we put at the end of the opening title sequence. For the effectiveness of the title, we combined with the music, so when the name appears, it goes along with the music beat.

Coursework: Editing 2

When we have came to edit suit again, we watched our title sequence once again. We decided to put together start and ending so it will be clearer what we have. Those scenes were easy to edit as there was a clear order and content which we had to show.

Then, we put our music track as it is important how picture will look with the music. When we did it, it was clear that some shots we needed to change so the music intro would finish at the same time as the clip intro would finish.
Also, we understood that moving shots can't be edited with stable as in many times 180 degree rule is broken and overall it looks strange. So we decided just to keep the moving ones and leave stills in the beginning.
When we were editing, we met our main problem: all shots are very shaky. We were afraid that because of these problem whole product will look unprofessional and cheap, but the only thing we could do was to pretend that it was planned like that. It can be seen that teenagers are drunk, high and unstable, so the shot is also unstable.
When the main editing was finished, we started to make the titles. It was hard to choose the font, size and how we want our titles to be. We haven't finished them now, as we think some changes still have to be done.
Overall, the product we are making will be completely different from what we were expecting, but I still like it.

Coursework: Editing

Last week we started to edit our opening title sequence.

Firstly, we started to look through the footage, looking for the rushes we want to use. This process was very interesting for me as I really wanted to see what we did on the shoot day. There were a lot of different shots to choose from as we made a number of them for each action. However, straightaway, we understood two things: we forgot to film the main character on his own and that to edit our product will be harder then others as we have no order and no storyline.

When we finished, we had about 30 minutes of footage and it was a lot. Then, we started to divide rushes in different categories like stable shots, moving, "artistic" shots, sounds and etc. This was done  to make the editing process easier.

At first we wanted to combine all the moving shots which go from black to black to make an interesting picture as the people and room would change every time when shot goes to black. When we have done this, it looked pretty good, but short and we didn't know how to combine this with other shots.

On the next time we got in the editing suit we decided that we have to move on even if we didn't know what order it will be. So we started to combine together stable and moving shots for the same scene as we think later on, we will see how it will be better.

So, for this stage, we need to finish combining all scenes, after choose the layout, music and titles.