Applications Used to Create and Edit my Opening Sequence.

To edit my sequence and piece all of my films together I have used iMovie.



In editing the film there are many techniques including the example below which shows the basic selection of editing techniques. Here you can select one of the options and change a certain area. Whether that be the length of the clip, the speed of the clip, sound adjustments, stabilizing the clip, rotating the clip etc.




To create a soundtrack I used Garage Band which allowed me to piece many sound clips and instruments together to create a 'fit for purpose' piece.



To use a sound clip is simple and there are many to choose from which are split into the main categories which are shown in the screen grab below. I created three sound pieces using garageband, these where the beginning track, the news introduction, and the track after the broadcast.




When designing the company logo I used Adobe Photoshop.



The toolbar on Adobe Photoshop is shown below and contains tools such as paint, shapes, effects, magic wand, stamp, spot healing. Every tool is useful in helping to design a logo and achieve a high standard look.

Rough Cut Thoughts And Final Cut Ideas

I think that whilst my rough cut represents the Mise En Scene of horror well, it is still lacking in a variety of shots and plot development. I think it could be improved by filming more shots and giving away a little more of the plot. Also I think I could improve on the soundtrack by perhaps adding in strings. I think diegetic sounds in the final cut could be effective and including these is a possibility, these diegetic sounds could include grunts and breathing to show the killers emotions whether their emotions are angry, frustrated or even enjoying the act. I think more props would also help develop the plot and allow the viewer to understand WHY the person is doing this act. These props could include newspapers, a radio broadcast etc to offer more information about the story line while keeping the enigma.

Audience Feedback:
The audience who have watched my rough cut include family and friends. The main responses I received where things such as:
"Creepy."
"I think it needs to develop the plot more."
"A little less focus on meat and more focus on the religion."
"Too much of the meat scenes."
"Bit too much slicing and dicing."

Taking these comments into account I have already began editing the rough cut and I am beginning to remove quite a large chunk of the meat scenes and have went back to recording new clips to use. These clips include quotes from the bible and the beginning of a 'scrapbook'.

Rough Cut

Simliar Products To My Piece.

The opening of 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning' is a similar product to my piece. Its opens showing just flashes and short clips of particular images and occurences. I like that it doesn't give much away and that it's almost like a mind map piecing things together, but only giving small pieces of information away.




Also the opening of Se7en is similar to my piece and is my inspiration which i will use to add more filming to my piece for my final cut. I think that this opening is brilliant in demonstrating mystery and curiosity as to what is happening, why is this person stitching and sticking things into a scrap book etc. I wish to recreate certain elements from Se7en for my piece such as the opening of a book, but rather than a scrap book it will be a bible and i will use shallow focus to pick out only a significant phrase. I have also been inspired to show flashes of newspaper headlines.

Creating A Company Logo.

For my company logo I have used an image from the internet found on google images, however I have changed the image and modified it using photoshop. I changed the colour of the Iris to a red using the burn effect and I also darked particular parts surrounding the eye making the eye more orange rather than yellow. I added my own title 'Magic Motion Pictures' and 'Present' as another layer on the image and I enlarged the Pupil of the eye also.