"Me, Myself and I": Further Editing Progress

"Me, Myself and I": Further Editing Progress

Due to the high quality of both shots and wild tracks it required us to invest in a hard drive. We faced difficulty as the hard drive is only compatible on Mac's and we all own a Windows.

Our complication is that we now have our editing opportunities less than we hope as we're incapable of editing at home due to the lack of equipment. This  gives us only the time in lessons and after school to work on our project.

The program that we decided to use for editing was IMovie, as it is the software that is already on the school computers.

The Challenges

Importing

Having spent 2hrs importing both the rough footage and audio from the hard drive onto the computer, we found that the footage could only be accessed when the hard drive and the was connected. This meant that every time we wanted to edit we had to connect the hard drive

Logo

Our logo for Crane Shot Productions is an image rather than film. When we first inserted it the image became stretched and enlarged.

We spent many time in lessons trying to overcome this. Asking our teachers for assistance which they unfortunately weren't able to help us with. We even resulted to looking for help on Google, Apple and YouTube yet we still did not know how to fix it.

Thankfully we did eventually sort it due to Emma's brilliance! After clicking on the inserted, warped image a crop sign will appear in the top left of that image on the time line. Click on the crop sign and in the viewing box in the top left corner click fit.

 

 

Font

The font for our film opening became a real problem for several reasons. The first of which is the  lack of choice.

 

IMovie has a choice of nine fonts, none of which particularly fit our film. In the end we picked American type writer due to one of our influences for our film.

The film Perks of being a wallflower uses type writer font and as we can draw links in the style of our film to this film, we thought it was the best out of the choice that was available to us.

 

We also made further research at title websites to try and get a feel for the sort of title we might use:

http://annyas.com/screenshots/2010-2014/

http://www.artofthetitle.com/

Another difficulty we face with the font was that we could only have it aligned in the center, left or right. Due to the composition of the shots, this choice of alignment was restricting  as we needed to be able to move the text to wherever we wanted.

To try and help us we looked at you tube videos such as: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BZDuvIQ-IK0 

However none of these helped and unfortunately the text could not be moved.

Although the font is not exactly how we would want it to be and the position is not great. However we chose to stick with this. The reason for this is because, we wanted our font and the animation that goes with it to be purposely dissonant from the footage to reflect our protagonists state of mind. Using the titles sudden movement we're trying to reflect her personalities to them. This is to further emphasise her disorder, accompanied by the footage. Together they represent her loss of identity. If we had more time and the right programmes to customize our own, we wold definitely design something that is much more suitable for our film. However, for now this is as close as we can get to our initial idea.

 

Sounds
We have contemplated long and hard about the sounds of our film. Comparing our final project to our plan, we have made some drastic changes. Originally we aimed on having May's voice over in the footage to narrate what's happening in each scene to introduce each personas. However, after debating for a long time on what to do; we have decided to abandone this for the following reason...

1. Due to our limited time, the footage are too short to be accompanied by a voice over. We have recorded Daisy as a practice and used the audio file with our film but it came out clumsy and rushed. It completely lacked the sophistication we desired.
2. Adding a voice over will mean having 3 layers of sounds: Wildtracks, non-diegetic and Voice over. Using the practice audio of Daisy's voice, we tested what it would sounds like and it was chaos. The sounds became too overwhelming and it just became distracting for our footage.
3. Finding the time to record the voice over. Since our actress Vita Oldershaw attends Uni out of Oxford, getting the voice over will involve us travelling to see her to record them. However, due to our mismatching schedules; this proved to be impossible. We didn't want to cause Vita any inconvenience as she had helped us enough already with our film; in addition to this we all had other A-levels which we're committed to.