Film - Final Edit

The film is meant to be around 2 minutes long and our first edit was about 5 minutes. The first thing that we did when we went back to edit was to aim to cut down our footage to around 3 minutes. We decided to do this by cutting down the majority of the scenes. By doing this not only did we cut our time down dramatically but it also made the scenes look more sharp and energetic.

After reducing our film's length we decided to begin fitting the actors names in. We decided that 2 seconds was a substantial length for the actors names to appear on the film. The hardest part was trying to fit the names into the film, making sure that they were all equally spaced out. This was a challenge as most of our clips were not 2 seconds long and we didnt want the names to overlap into different clips. We eventually chose to put the names after the flashback. (We originally decided to put all of the names in the flashback at the very beginning). This meant that we could space the names out more appropriately. We also had quite a few of 2 second or more clips so we had more choice as to where the names could go.

After fitting all the names in the right spaces we had to add the title of the film. As a group we were unsure as to where the title should go. We tried it in several spaces but as we watched it we got the idea that it looked like a documentary title instead of a feature film title. We asked our teacher where he thought it would be most appropriate to put the title and he suggested that it should go nearly at the end in the funeral scene where the characters are walking to the stairs. We put the title there and chose to keep it on the screen for 5 seconds. We watched the film and thought that this was the best place for it to go.

After we finished this we need to make our film production name. We thought that it would be different if we made an ainmation on the PC and then transfer it on a memory stick to the MAC computers.