Friday, 6 March 2009

Thriller Editing Day 2

Well for me this was actually a two day editing, because the day before the deadline I spent my free time to come in and do some editing, we needed to create the sound. I came in at lunch and the Mac’s were all used up so I had to wait a while, but it wasn’t long before I got a Mac to use. It took me a while to actually figure out what it is that I would use to create the sound, as you see we had a vast majority of tools and instruments which we could have chosen from, so that even made the task harder.

Finding the right type of mood for the sound was the trickiest part, I had to decide how it would run throughout the whole clip. At first I wanted it to be calm at the start and the gradually speed up the tempo to increase the tension, but that got scrapped as I had realised that creating a soundtrack that was mysterious at start and then slowly increasing the tempo would be much more effective. So I spent time fiddling with the tools and instruments, and I had finally created a soundtrack which I was pleased with, it still needed some tweaking to It but I had decided to leave that for the tomorrow, because everyone in the group would be in and then we can decide on whether the soundtrack is good or not, or whether there’s anything else that needs to be added on.

So tomorrow came and everyone was in as expected, we divided the groups into two, me and Rebecca done the sound and some finishing touches to the clip, Ava & Annie went off to finish the credits. The editing wasn’t really tricky at all, we just had to distort some images and slow down a couple of scenes wasn’t no big. The soundtrack also got tweaked a bit just to improve the tension. Ava & Annie came back but had a problem with the credits, so we had to re-create the credits again which didn’t take very long. We got that done quickly and compiled the whole clip and we were done, the end product was made. All the hard work paid off.

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