Compromise.

Having debated about the music for a lengthy period of time, we as a group have decided that we want to  have one final version of the film, not two separate ones. This means compromising over the soundtrack. Now we have all stopped being stubborn and accepted other peoples view point the soundtrack is much better!

Fitting in S.E.A Productions and ADMILNA INC

After the disaster on Adobe Flash, we incorperated S.E.A Productions in a much simpler fashion. We had the writing in a large blue font on a black background and used a .... cut to make it appear like water. We also added a dripping sound to the background. As far as incorperating ADMILNA INC we used a black background, again, with red writing and simply wrote "in association with admilna inc", it appears after some of the footage of the central character. This idea was taken from the film Mean Machine. After watching simlar films we noted that they're credits were very simple so not to take away from the narrative and we tried to immitate them.

Small but needed changes..

We were all relatively happy with how things were going but after going through it very closely and analysing it we decided that there were some small cuts which needed to be made. We literally took no more than 2 seconds off of a few shots but the difference it made was unbelieveable. It made the film run so much smoother.

Change in Soundtrack

Due to disagreements within the group, we made two versions of the soundtrack on garage band. On one version there are sounds of traffic in the background and one without. There are different piano sounds in both of the versions at the start of the sequence.

Producing the soundtrack

To produce a soundtrack to the opening sequence we had to use garage band. The sequence starts off at a very slow pace and the weather is not particularly nice which shows pathetic fallacy. To create a mellow mood, we used a piano sequence at the start. The pace is slow until the main character reaches his apartment. To create suspense when he entered his apartment we used a high pitched sound. The chase sequence starts off with a gun shot and a grime song called Mike Lowry is played.

New and improved sound track!

Thankfully, after hours of searching we found an unsigned artist using the same backing track but with different lyrics. The lyrics he uses actually suit our film better.

Problems with our soundtrack

Unfortunately, today we discovered that we cannot use our sound track due to copy right infringements. We are currently looking for another soundtrack to use instead, we're looking for the same kind of music but by an unsigned artist.

Trouble with the credits

We found it quite difficult to put the credits in and still keep it looking like an authentic and well made film and not rushed. We tried numerous ways but we couldn't agree on anything. Above is one way we tried to do our credits.

Editing and the first "finished" film

Below is our first draft of the film completed with sound.

Editing Process Continued

Having watched through our product we noted that several shots needed to be cut to make the sequences flow better. Just by shortening the shots slightly we took nearly a minute off of our opening sequence.

Editing Process

Editing was surprisingly easier than we had first thought it would be. We had well over 2 hours worth of footage which needed to be filtered down into the most suited and most effective shots. We filmed much of the footage from 4 or 5 different angles and shots on purpose, because we were not entirely sure what would look best and figured it is better to hace to much to play with when editing than not enough. When editing we realised that in order to depict a realistic film we had to stick to traditional cuts and edits and not use the exciting more elaborate ones as they would make the extract seem unrealistic. 

Twisted Pictures

We added the production company "Twisted Pictures" to our opening sequence as it went well with the theme and the mood of our opening sequence.

A.S.E Productions

A.S.E Productions is the name of our production company, we put this into the opening sequence by making it appear that as the central character is walking the credit is following him.