The Deadline

Finally our film opening was complete!
Fatma and Yarohey had arrived earlier and had already begun creating the soundtrack as Carel and I was in lessons. At lunch when I arrived I saw that they had worked through most of it, they had created music, added Yarohey's voiceover and put sound effects in places. We then added in the sound of the footsteps, filled in some of the silences before the flashback and started to adjust the volume on some sound effects so they would fade out but by then lunch had ended and Fatma and Yarohey had to go to their lesson, however Carel had arrived and so we continued on without them. We made a few changes to what they had done, such as changing the sound effect when the title comes up to a more deep pitch sound, fading out the 'dreamy sync' noise because it was a monotone sound, so when it finished it ended suddenly and sounded weird. We also changed the last sentence of Yarohey's voiceover recording with another recording she had done because we thought that her voice sounded more stronger and effective than in the one we originally used. Then to fill in the gap at the beginning where there was silence we added in the sound of a piano playing that was same sound effect Fatma and Yarohey had used in the flashback.

It then felt like we had truly finished, so then we call over the teacher to watch through our opening. Just like us, she was very pleased with it and then told us to save it back in Final Cut Pro with the music added on, as we did this we also put in a small black block of colour before the opening with a addictive dissolve transition on it so when our opening begins, it slowly fades in. Then we saved it on our hard drive so then the teachers would then render it for us and upload it onto the blog. Having put it away and ticked off our group, we then left feeling extremely proud of our great film opening.