finalcut

Our group are familiar with finalcut express however, we are not sure as to what all of the tools can be used for. This is why i spent some time researching on various sites for tips and advice whilst using this programme, hopefully this can add to our editing to help create a better finish.

Sites i looked at:

http://www.ehow.com/videos-on_3483_use-pro-video-editing-software.html

http://www.apple.com/finalcutexpress/

freesound.org

http://www.freesound.org/

I have now been introduced to a website in which i can take non-copywrited sounds and use them within finalcut to add to our horror film opening.
Our group have discussed this website and decided to use some of the sound effects
on there for features such as;
creaking decking,
screams,
doors opening and closing,
footsteps,
bangs etc
There are also horror tracks avaliable on the site, however, as a group i think that we are going to be using garageband and creating our own sound loop (our minds could change on this however).

14th march editing

This is our second editing session and so far, as a group, we are on track to reaching all deadlines on the editing process. As we thought about our storyboards carefully and whilst filming we discussed all of the angles we would need, we had the footage that we knew how to edit together. This is making the editing process faster and easier.
So far, we have created a base footage which shows us the order of shots to use and this is around 1 minute 30 seconds. We haven't yet added transitions or played with many effects but we are set up for reaching out 2 minute limitation.

7th march editing

Our group has now began the editing in the production process. We have created roughly 20 seconds of usable footgae however, we may go back to this at a later date to re-edit parts if out ideas or order changes. So far, we are happy with how we have worked and as a group, we don't think that we will need to go back and do anymore filming.

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Our updated storyboards

The new versions of our storyboards are now displayed in the post containing the original ones. We changed our idea after the first filming session as we agreed that the plan we had orginally come up with was not suitable enough for the horror genre, and would also go over the two minute time limit. We have also taken out two of the characters in our new storyboard, Karen and David Osborne. The reason for this is that because those two characters were only going to be needed in a small section of the original storyboard. Now that the storyboard has changed, that section has been removed therefore we did not need those characters. We are confident that our updated storyboard will be more effective and link more to the idea of the teenage horror genre.

uploading footage

Yesterday, my group and i uploaded all of our footage that we had previously filmed. We first uploaded out footage to imovie and then saved it into a quicktime that we can later edit. We have saved it under a suitable name and onto our hitchcock group's mac computer.

We feel asthough we have lots of footage and angles to edit together as we have collated about 40minutes worth of recodings.

We have reached our deadline of February 28th with time to spare and our group is happy about this as we have shown that we can work within time limitations.