First section - Editing

When we started edited we were a bit cautious at first as Antonia was the only person who had used the movie editing software before (Final cut on the Mac computers) - so at first she was teaching and helping me and Toby understand. We at first decided we needed a name for our film (Lustful Injustice) so we chose Toby to go and create this is photo shop which we would overlap part of our film to introduce it. We chose to put the name near the beginning which is conventional, however we layered it over the close-up of the photos that Detective Carter is looking at. I did the editing of this section and put all the text onto out film. I had to fade out the name of our film slightly because it had a white background that i couldn't remove at that part of the process. This is why the background has a slightly pale tinge to it, however i actually quite like this effect as it gives the picture a slightly misty look to it - this suits the mystery needed for our film.

The next part that i did was adding the actors names over the first section (intro) of the movie,

this is conventional of most films (not just in the film noir genre) as the audience like to see what actors are going to be in the movie they are about to watch.

I achieved this using to text icon under the filming tab. This let me drag and drop any text i wanted onto the movie. (The video line above the main movie as shown in the first screen shot. I added cross fades in and out of the text, which means the text fades in to the picture then out again. This makes it look slightly more professional than the text just popping up. I then moved the text to the upper left hand corner or lower right hand corner which really suits the different angles on the camera. We took out the original sound and added some music to overlap this section, however it dies out when the voice over comes in. We had a bit of trouble we the voice over as we first tries to use a microphone because of the noise in the mac room but the mac computers didn't work properly with it so we came back when it was quiet and recorded it straight onto the film. I like how it sounds and think it works perfectly with the clips. (Thanks to main actor Ed Beard for the number of takes we had to do).

The intro to the piece was unfortunately not how we planned it. (We did want to use some proper animation) however i still like the way it turned out. We were really rushed at the ended so i had to do it quickly, i used the typewriter text setting to create the production company intro and put the text as white on a simple black background - I thought this would compliment the rest of the film nicely. To get the proper type writer effect i decided to use the noise of a real type-writer over the top. At first we couldn't find a website that would let us download the noise so i decided to open the site on the computer next to it and use the voice-over icon on our computer to record the typewriter sound as it was playing on the mac next to us. I then cut it so it fit the text on the screen and i really like how the final result came out.

We used a few different shots on this first section but i really like the fact you can never see the whole of the detective's face in any of them. Me and Antonia worked to make this section perfect as it is the first thing the audience would see of our movie. Using the over the shoulder shot was good because you could almost see the pictures from his perspective as you hear what he is thinking. The other view from the side i also really like as you can only see his hands (picture above) which keeps an element of mystery about the character.