News Title Sequence: rough cut

After filming in london with James, James and I began to edit the footage using abode premiere which we have used before at AS. 

We began editing by uploading the footage from the HD camera on to the program, which was a lot easier because these camera's were up to date as the media department had received new cameras. To upload the footage we opened the adobe premiere program, then went on 'organize' and 'get media' and then 'DV Camcorder' where we found our footage and uploaded it. After this we began organising the sequence of our footage as well as cutting out the unnecessary footage. This was a long and boring process and we had to watch and re watch the clips in order to make sure all the unwanted lips were deleted like the clips were the camera was slanted etc.. 

To make the sequence look more authentic (like the BBC's news title sequence) me and james decided to speed up the footage this was achieved by left clicking on the clips and going on 'time stretch...' which allows us to speed up or slow down the clip by typing in the speed we want it to go. We changed the speed of each clip to 600% at first but that just wasn't fast enough and so we changed it to 700% but that still wasn't fast enough eventually we changed the speed to 800% which was just right.

After speeding up the clips we added the animated logo that james had been working on, on Anime Studio Debut on Mac, to the end of the sequence of clips. We then added the theme tune to the sequence by going on 'organize' 'get media' and then file and folder where we found our theme tune and uploaded it. We then cut the sound track down in order to finish when the sequence of clips did, but we left 5 seconds more of the sound at the end so we can have the audio track fading out at the end.

Next we decided to add some transitions and effects to the clip because it felt a tad dull towards the end of the clip. To add transitions to the sequence we clicked on 'edit' then 'transition' and began playing around with the different transitions. The main transition we used near the beginning of the sequence was the 'Cube Spin' which made the clip move in a cube form to the next clip. We used this transition because it wasn't to over the top and distracting. In other sections of the sequence where we used the 'Cube Spin' we made it move in reverse order so it didn't seem to repetitive.

After showing our media teacher our rough sequence she felt that it was still at tad boring and repetitive and so we thought that it would be best to film more clips of different parts of London, iconic places such as london bridge. We also felt that it would be best for james to edit it at home as he used an exclusive program to Macs called Motion 5, in which the schools Macs do not have, and professional graphic artists use.

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Joycelyn