Children's Film: Final Opening Sequence

Children's Film: Editing Day 3

We finished the editing process today. All the cuts were finished yesterday, so we added in the transitions and music and sound effects. We decided to put all of the audio files into one Garageband file so that we could simply cut it in Final Cut Express, and would prevent us from having to import multiple files. Credits and a title have also been added giving the names of Director, Producer, Editor etc.

Now that the editing process is complete we have our footage cut and flowing, with credits, music and sound effects all at appropriate times. We have made sure that the music/sound effects doesn't overpower the dialogue parts of the sequence, and have decided to subtly lower the music when dialogue begins.

Adding credits

I mentioned earlier, in a post here, that we would have to check that the classification of the film. Going back to our post on classification, we have decided that the best classification for our opening sequence is PG. Earlier I thought that we may need to change the classification to U, however, looking back at the classification rules PG is more suitable. This is because the threats represented by the villain show no outcome, and mild discrimination is shown in the reality school scene when the apple is thrown out of Jeremy's hand. Therefore PG is more suitable, and it's better to choose this classification to be safe.

Note: Our classification is PG.

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Children's Film: Editing Day 2

Adding a Transition.

Toady we finished off any cutting we needed to complete, along with the soundtrack and sound effects. We found that after cutting we found that we needed to further cut footage to make the sequence 2 minutes. We were also able to add some transitions in to make the sequence more active and interesting, however, we have not completed this yet.

Well on schedule, but in our final editing day we need to consider the following: credits at the opening, importing soundtrack and sound effects, adding more transitions and adding any other finishing touches to the sequence.

Children's Film: Editing Music

We worked on the music and sound effects for our children's film. First we did research on the kind of music used in children films and what techniques are used in chase scenes. We then took these ideas and incorporated them into our music.

We used GarageBand and found clips of music that we felt fit with our video and made it slightly comical to help lighten the mood and make it more family friendly. we added in fills in the drums and piano solos to keep the music interesting and to add dynamics to our piece.

We also made music for our 'western-style scene' where their is a confrontation between the two supernatural characters. For this we researched more films and examples of old western-films. For example,  the iconic scene in "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" which you can see below. We then went back to GarageBand and found music to best suite our scene. Sound effects were also found on GarageBand. For example, the sound effect when the main character wakes from his dream and the background noise in the corridor.

Our music on GarageBand

Children's Film: Editing Day 1

Today we began our editing process, and also began to create the music the soundtrack and sound effects for our sequence.

The most important thing which we began to do today was cutting the footage up. This ensured that we had a flowing sequence of different shots, this will enable us to add in any transitions of effects that we need later. The footage was originals about 6 minutes in total as we had filmed the same shots several times to ensure that we got the best we could, after finishing all the cutting we have about 2 - 3 minutes. Our aim is to get the opening sequence as close to 2 minutes as possible.

Cut footage

 We also began to create the soundtrack and effects for the sequence. Three pieces of music are needed: the chase scene (which also the music used for opening the sequence), a western style piece, and some background music or sound effects for the reality/school scene at the end. Sound effects will be used at different point in the sequence to show the magic weapons, and the transition from dream to reality via the main character waking up. All the soundtrack and sound effects will be created using Garageband so the music is all original.

Editing the Time-line.