Reflecting on AS production work: Post Production

The post production process is where our filming was put together and our thriller opening started to take shape through editing; using programs like Final Cut Pro.

Visuals:
Throughout the post production stage we were putting all of our camera footage together. 
We used stabilising affects on certain pieces of footage to make it seem smoother and more professional.
We also blurred certain parts of footage to make them appear out of focus and adjusted the lighting from bright naturalistic day light to a darker fore sinister affect.

Here is a video showing our post production editing stage

Titles and Credits:
Throughout the editing stage on final cut pro we also added in titles and credits as shown below. We decided to make our titles and credits in the bottom right hand corner and through our research in our pre production stage we found that alot of professional films like Gone Girl tend to have there placed here. We also decides to have them fading in slowly so they were not the focus of the viewers attention and it also added a sinister affect. As a group we also decide on a typewrite font to link it to an ongoing investigation.

We added the title of the thriller 'Unmasked'  in the centre of the screen to differentiate from the ordinary credits. 

Audio:
In terms of Sound we created the main soundtrack for the opening on software called garageband; this was because we couldn't find anything that we wanted online so decided to create it ourselves.
However towards the end of the opening there is more of an upbeat sound that we were advised to use during out audience feedback so we sourced it an un-copyright sound track from soundcloud.

In terms of dialogue there wasn't much in the opening and the few lines that were didn't need to be edited and the microphone picked it up clearly.  


Preliminary Vs Final Product:

In out preliminary task we were were pushed for time on editing meaning we were restricted to what we could do with our footage. 
Whereas for our thriller opening we were given a lot more time and were a lot more used to using Final Cut Pro meaning we could edit continuity aspects such as match on action much smoother allowing real events to appear as if they were happening in real time; creating a sense of verisimilitude. Below i have inserted clips to show this. 

Preliminary:

Final Product:

Due to there only being one protagonist at a time on screen in our thriller opening we did not demonstrate the '360 degree rule' or 'shot reverse shot'.

In terms of editing there is also a clear difference in our credits. Our preliminary tasks credits are against a black background and appear in an armature font and transition. However from research we found that a black background was not typically used in thriller openings and more simplistic fonts and transitions are usually used so we incorporated this into our thriller opening which is demonstrated below. 

Preliminary:

Final Product: