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.