We had already made the following changes and improvements to our opening:
- To make the piece fit to the two minute time restriction, we had a group discussion and decided that a lot of the walking sequence could still be cut.
- We also cut some of the walking to the barn, as there were originally 6 shots of this shot aspect of the opening, which we agreed did not add much to the opening.
- We cut down the door locking sequence considerably, so that it felt more urgent and more dramatic.
Yesterday, we added in the final music piece which Chris had edited from the original Murray Gold track 'Midnight' (see previous post). We added this to the timeline yesterday, and the piece was exactly 2:00 minutes in length, so we were all happy with the length of each shot.
Chris also changed the colours of each clip individually, to make the colouring through the opening more consistent, as well as to maximise their quality and to fit in with the dark and mysterious horror convention which we wanted to fulfill.
Our final edit included the following changes:
- We added in a number of soundtrack layers and added in additional whispers to the ones that Chris had already put into the track. They now overlap and give the central character a more mad persona.
- We added in the final title, 'The Rushes' at the end. We used the basic, Courier New font as this came out well from our audience research and also was consistent with the font on the script within the actual opening.
- A clip which had been slowed down at the very beginning to make it longer was returned to normal speed and extended, as it was too obvious that the shot had been slowed down.
As a group, we are very happy with our final opening. The main area that we feel was not as good as it could have been is the quality of the footage, which was poorer due to us shooting in poor lighting conditions.
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