2. Through-out both the filming and
editing process for our thriller
opening of ‘the thicket’ i have learnt
a lot about the different
technologies which I have been using.
In order to edit our film we used Final
Cut, I had used this
program before to edit previous
media pieces but from this task I
have learnt a lot more about the
3. Filters
When we watched our film back, we noticed
that during the bedroom scene the
lighting did not look right for the time of day
which we wanted to portray it to
be. This affected the atmosphere significantly
and made it look a lot less
realistic. We wanted the audience to know
that it was early in the morning,
however, the lighting suggested that it was in
the evening.
4. This is when we were introduced to filters. By using
filters we were able to use the
‘colour correction’ tool in order to change the
overall colour of the scene. By doing this
we were able to create a more ‘fresh’ light which
would normally be associated with the
morning. This made it appear much more realistic
and stopped any further confusion
for the audience.
5. Titles
I had imported titles into a film on Final Cut
before, however I had not
known how to import a font. After looking at
different font styles on
www.dafont.com, we had come across some
really good ideas. We wanted the
font for our titles to be significant towards
the narrative of our film. We
found a font which fit the criteria perfectly.
This particular font was chosen
as the ‘school-like’ image it gave off helped
with the characterisation of the girl
who featured in our opening.
We were able to download this font and
import it into our film, something
6. In order to make the titles fit in
with our opening we made
it so that they would appear on-
screen in time with the
soundtrack which we had added.
we added a ‘type-
writer’ effect to
make it appear as
though
they were being
typed onto the
7. Sound
In order to create a soundtrack for effect we used the
program ‘garage band’. this enabled us to create
a soundtrack using many different instruments so that it
would fit in with the film clip which we wanted
it to complement. the
At the bottom of
screen there are many
different tracks to
choose from. Once we had
chosen which track we
wanted to include, we
were able to select it and
drag it to the timeline at
the top. I learnt that not
only were we able to
customise the timing of the
soundtrack, but we were
able to build up many
different layers in order
8. I also learnt how to change the
volume of certain tracks
so that certain tracks could be
heard over the other, or so
that the whole soundtrack could
be more quiet so that the
main focus can remain on the
diegetic sound, in our case,
the spade.
