Editing our movie.....OBSESSION.

On Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th March, we were given a 10 hour period to edit our movie in the iMac suite in school.  Darcy and I were excited to finally piece our clips together to produce an outcome that we both worked hard to get! 

Monday...
But our excitement slowly faded as stress approached. Personally; when it comes to technology, I'm like a Granddad! So I was hoping Darcy would be much more advanced than myself. We planned that on the first day, we would edit the the news report , add images and sound effects to create realism, burn it onto a CD, then on Monday night continue filming in the garage the opening of the film.


Above is what we were hoping to do, when the newsreporter mention "Lee Street", an image of himself would be visible. Little did we know this was far too ambitious for us to do and the added stress meant that we now wasted almost 2 hours struggling.  We then came to a conclusion of adding his image at the end of the report, burn the contents onto a disk and play this disk on a laptop in the garage (we didn't have a TV to play this on so improvised).

After a break, we felt much more relieved that our film was coming together. We explored the sound effects, the transitions and many tools on imovie and, feeling confident, began to important the start of our many clips. We both agreed on the transitions as they gave the affect needed  (significant colours white or black, blurred) and played with the sound effects, so that the next day we could head straight in and complete our movie.

Filming continued... Last minute on Monday evening, we went back to Darcy's to film the opening of our movie. With panicking aside, it was worth the hassle of laptops charge dying, a broken tripod and an exhausted producers, because we were confident about the outcome! He took multiple photos and frames of the laptop playing the report, a slow horizontal pan so that the clip look like a point of view shot. We are happy witht the outcome of that!

Tuesday...

Last day of editing! We rushed in and got going, we finally got the hang of iMovie so everything just became much more simpler. 

After filming our opening credits, we were inspired by this credit opening of American Horror Story to recreate ours in a similar way, its strange, unique and perfect for the affect our film needed! So with all the clips we filmed the night before, we added them on iMovie, edited them in a similar way to this opening, additional sound effects and font and our opening was sorted! We chose a font that was edgy anf uneven to create an strange atmosphere from the very beggining, the body of the film will continue this.

After editing the body of the film, with the sound effects of footsteps, creaking doors all we needed was the music of the movie. As we named our film 'Obsession', Darcy's brother suggested the sound 'Obsession' by Tine Tempah....

The lyrics were well suited to the theme of our movie and with timing and the use of slow motion in our movie (from start to end), it came together perfectly! We used the last chorus and the remaining end of the song to add impact to the remaining images of the movie. (2.45-3.22).

Overall.... the last two days were a mixture of stress and success! All our frustration of the new technology was well worth our successful outcome! Me and Darcy were so pleased!