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Wooden Dream 2 Minute Opening

The final result of the editing and filming, the 2 minute film opening for "Wooden Dream".

Group's Company Logo for Title Sequence

This was the first logo that our group created. We didn't like the looks of the logo and decided to change it, though.

This is the second logo that we designed. We made it more simplistic and we thought that having a black logo upon a white background would stand out better. We decided to remove the stars as we thought it looked similar to the TV show, 'American Idol'. We decided to make the productions part of the logo smaller and the name of the company larger as this is what we wanted to advertise.

Before adding our logo onto the film opening, we decided to make it look more attractive by making it animated. To do this, we used the Adobe Flash software on the Macs to make the logo bounce up and down, as if on a spring. We also added a spring sound effect by using the sound effects on iMovie. Finally, we then added the logo onto the film.

We made the logo bounce as we were making a comedy mockumentary, and we decided to use a "childish" like logo to show to the audience that our company specialises in making comedy films and that the film is also a comedy.

Editing Film Footage Part IV

In this stage of editing involved adding music effects to the clips as well as transactions. We started with transactions between the different scenes. We tried full pre made transactions that are on imovie such as the comic book transaction effect however we decided against this as we felt that it looked amateurish at best and irrelevant to the theme. After experimenting with different transactions we decided upon a simple transaction effect. Next we looked at adding sound effects to the first scene (press conference). We added various camera shutters sound effects to simulate a real press conference in which reporters are taking real photos. We also added a boing sound and an applause to provide a crowd reaction for a realism effect. The next scene we added  text to resemble a news report so this featured things like the name of the news corporation and location. We did this for the realism effect to make it appear that it is a real news report. We also tried something similar with the next scene for the same reason.

Creating the title sequence

 

We put the print screen image on to adobe fireworks software in which we chose one of the fonts available and moved it into location. We added each letter after we saved the image without the new letter. We then added these images to imovie. We added each one as a new part and made each ones duration 0.2 seconds. This created the effect that a typewriter was writing the text onto the block. We added a typewriter sound effect on top of the title sequence and luckily enough it matched the pace in which the text was being written on the block. The final block where all the text has been written was longer. During this sequence we added some music which turned out to be Dolce Vita which was on the imovie sound effects.

Editing Film Footage Part III

One of the scenes that we also edited was the title sequence. We originally took the filming from the Tower Fall scene and we tried to edit the film, so when a Jenga block falls in front of the camera, we paused the video and then placed text onto the block.

At first we attempted to use the title affects that were present on imovie however after trying various different forms of fonts, colours and effects however we felt that none of these were up to standard so we decided to place each letter onto the wooden block individually  to create an effect that a typewriter is writing them. Unfortunately imovie dose not allow this so we had to take a print screen of the clip and copy the image onto a seperate software.

Editing Film Footage Part II

In order to make our film look more professional and flow smoothly, we had to edit certain parts of the footage. We also edited certain parts of the footage to include effects, such as sound effects and visual effects.