Post Production Work.

After our thriller we began the editing proccess using  the Final Cut Pro editing software. We firstly had to 'check out' our work from the Final Cut Server and sent it to our desktop. Once this was done we opened Final Cut Pro and opened the file named 'rushes' which contained all of the video clips that we had filmed over our shooting day. We then created a new folder call 'Log bin' and watched all of the clips from the rushes folder and moved ones which could be used in the final opening sequance. Once we had selected the shots that we wanted we started the editing by dragging a wide shot of the scene down onto the final cut timeline in which we could cut the shot up and use the segments of the clip that we wanted to be in a wide shot. We continued to drop shots onto the timeline until we had a rough draft of our opening sequance. One of the ways in which we made our opening sequance flow and seem fluid was once the dialogue started we kept the same audio clip running throughout the sequance and placed other audio clips on top of it. We then cut back to the person speaking in order to show that it remains as diagetic sound. It Also reminded the audience that the character speaking was an important one in this scene. Quite often we cut to a close up  of the criminals face when a question was asked in order to draw significance to him and to show that he has no enthapy with the other characters in this scene. We then later decided to add a Radio Broadcast at the start of the sequance in order to give the main character (the criminal) a larger back story without a really long prision sentence being read out.

(This is a snapshot of the final cut time line and the editng windows)

 In order to join the prision scene to the pub scene was we waited until the 'bag' was pulled down over the criminals head and added a fade transition so that the screen was black then we started the pub scene with someone walking away from the camera joining the to clips together. Once we had our sequance on the timeline we started to add credits over the top of the sequance listing key crew and 'Characters' or actors. We then used Sound Cut Pro which is a sound editing software to add sounds such as electrical sounds of generators and electric shocks. We also added a 'Busy Room' sound effects in order to give the pub more of an athmosphere.

Once this was done we Decided to add a title card of the word 'resurgence' and the way in which we did this was to create the word itself in Photoshop and then cut letter out and rotated them and slighty changed the size of the R so that it was larger than the rest of the text. We also selected the font. Once this was done we moved this into after effects and started off by creating a set of layers and blured the bottom layer and then then added the effect of a bad TV effect in order to make it look more like an electric current. We then added a lighting effect to the background and then we imported it into final cut and played an audio clip of an electic current over it to enhance the electric feel to the title.

We then added a radio broadcast in order to give the sequance a more realistic feel. It also allowed us to give a larger back story to the sequance without having a long detailed section of dialogue during the prison sequance which would seem

We chose vertigo a our distributor as it a small english distributor which would be more likly to take a film like ours.

This is a screen shot of the title cards at the start of our sequance. This is a name of a production company that we though of ourselfs named 'Blue Print Productons'

This is the shot that we opened with as it allowed the audience to get an understanding of where this scene is taking place, and an idea of the setting.

This is a close shot of 'Randell Merrit' this shot was used to show that he has no regret or responces to anything said to him. It also draws significance to him and tells the audience that he is an important character.

This is a shot that we used to show the govener when he was speaking. It once again shows the audience that he is significant but it also gives the audience a feel for the time period due to the way he is dressed.