Main Task - The Camp Opening Scene

Week Commencing 8/12/14

On Wednesday the 10th of December we played around with the sound and titles again, including moving the title to the start after the logo because at the end it looked like a trailer. We then thought that
we had finished the film. However our teacher gave us some more feedback to improve:

• put the titles on either the left or right side at the bottom instead of having them in random places
• make the titles all the same sizes
• add more titles and make them come in at more consistent times

So in Thursday's lesson we made these improvments. At first we had difficulty moving some of the titles to to the bottom as it kept cutting the bottoms of the names off. Never the less, after we played around with them and trying various different ways we finally got it to work. We added more titles, including who the film was written by and the camera man. Also at the start, before the main title we added another title saying 'A Kate Gopsill Film' because it is common for this to be at the start of opening scenes. We changed the title sizes to all the same size too, which we found easy to do.

Week Commencing 1/12/14

Last week I wasn't here in the lesson but Kate  added the sound clips and put a few of them in the right places. She found a website called 'freesound' where she found clips of police sirens, finger tapping etc because the sounds we recorded for the finger tapping didn't sound right. We obviously couldn't record police siren noises at sixth form so we got it off the website. We thought police sirens would effective because it may explain the storyline more and tell the audience they are in a prison and that he is a criminal if they haven't already gathered.  
Also she made some of the titles including the end title that says the name of the film.

This week we carried on putting sound clips in the right places. We took it in turn to edit the sounds and put them where we wanted them. We also made the rest of the titles including the names of the actors. We changed the font type that we originally had because it looked too much like a presentation. The font we have now is effective because its quite simple and plain so the titles don't  distract the audience from what is going on in the scene.We also decided to download a sound clip of glass smashing because when Lauren is about to be raped she tries to defend herself by smashing a glass bottle and cutting the man with it.