Evaluation

LOST

It's finally here! This is my finally film opening for LOST, enjoy!

Editing my film opening

While I had been filming the horror clips for my opening I had been editing the shots at school so I could get a rough idea of what shots I still needed to get and what I already had. Now that all my filming is done, I took some time to sit down and perfect my film opening. During class before the christmas holidays we showed what we had created so far, I received some positive feedback that I really wanted to consider. One of my classmates commented on the ending and mentioned how it was more like a mystery than a horror opening. So this week I took some time looking at the ending and already made horror film openings. My teacher had given me the idea to add in some police radio background noise that shows that it's a murder investigation. This idea worked really well and so I decided to keep that in the opening, however I still felt as though the horror opening still needed something on top of the radio noise. So I went into garage band to have a little experiment with the provided instruments and found a synthesised noise called "Sea Glass" with this I was able to create some interesting chords which I held out for a few seconds that sounded really creepy and eery. Then I put these noises into my horror opening and found the sounds were just perfect. 

This is a screen shot of the editing process in final cut pro, as you can see this is the crime scene towards the end of the opening. Since the lighting was fairly dark when I filmed this, I used the exposure settings to brighten the clips so that the police tape was clearer and easier to see. 

 If you zoom in, you can see the two green bars that contain the sound. One being the police radio sound effects (Ambient Sound) and the Sea Glass chords (Non Diegetic Sound). The Sea Glass chords help to build up the suspense just before the ending of the opening and I find it really fits, it build the atmosphere of this missing girl that the police are looking for. The Ambient sound of the police radio helps to set the scene of the crime scene, it also helps to make the cuts a lot less obvious. As you can see there is a blank space in the footage, I haven't yet decided whether to leave it blank or to add in some more footage. I think that it looks really intriguing and creates suspense as there is a sound bridge as the police radio and sea glass sounds continue playing and that makes it a lot less obvious. I am really pleased so far with the outcome of my horror opening and hope it continues to go as well as it is now, I want to have a final check over with my teacher before I publish the film.