Editing...

So Editing has been a long and slow process. I've changed my film more times than I can remember. I done the ident pretty early on, while I still rememebered how to do it! I kept the production name of Skyrise productions, just because I liked the sound of it. It sounded big and powerful. I really enjoyed editing and putting together all the clips i'd filmed. However music has been an issue, at first I had all the sort of music in mind that I wanted to use, all from the time period the film was set in 1950's.. artists like Elvis, Buddy Holly that were all mentioned in the book I really wanted to have in the clip, however my teacher told me I couldn't use artists due to copyrights, so I was pretty stuck about that. It took me a while, but I got over it and started looking elsewhere for some copyright music. It wasn't long before I found some great, moving tracks on youtube that were copyright free!!! I was so chuffed and began at once putting them together with my film clips. I spent many many lessons doing the tedious task of slowly cutting and overlaying the music within milliseconds of life to the exact place that I wanted it for maximum effect. I know how important music is in films and the music I had found I knew could really compliment my work and add the emotion I wanted to film. At the end of the day my film opening is the beginning of a story.. an emotional story of a young girl in a very tough situation and I wanted the film to be taken completely seriously and do the book credit if anything! So I rightly spent a lot of time and energy into the music and getting it exactly right, I was particularly pleased with the ending where Evie was sitting on my lap, I mananged to get a really good peak in the music to match beautifully with it and I loved the effect it gave!

Next up and last of all, in a bit of a rush I added on the credits. My friend showed me how as I'd forgotten from when James showed us and once I got the hang of it I was away. I took a long time choosing the font and colour that would sit well on my footage. The start is slow and not very dramatic, so I wanted a soft, elegant font that would easily fade in and then out and would go well with the music. Then at the end I wanted the words; 'Based on the novel..... Fallen Star.... By Joan O'neil.... to show on a blue screen just when the music was reaching it's peak. I knew exactly how I wanted it to look in my head and after a painstaking couple of hours (my computer kept shutting down suddenly, before I could save!!) I finally created that image! We had shown a rough cut to the class previously and mine really was a rough cut! A lot of these changes above were made afterwards and I didn't get to see them on the big screen until we had the big viewing at the end, but I was really happy with how it looked and worked!