continuation of post production

6th-17th March
We all continued doing each of our parts by developing and refining on them for a good two weeks. I carried on creating titles until i got to 17 which was the maximum of titles we chose to include as we didn't want to overload the title sequence with titles and wanted to keep it subtle and classy. While i was creating my titles Aaron was experimenting with sound and collected a few bits and bobs such as heart monitor sound and a sound of a accident (to convey the part at which a car crash had occured) as well as the main sound throughout the sequence. Hayley continued to refine the sequence from developing on the rough edit.

 After we had all completed our parts we merged all our work onto the sequence. Firstly we added the sound cropping parts out and using the fading method so that it smoothly starts and ends within the title sequence. We then started to discuss and decided upon which parts we wanted split screens to be shown through different transitions and which parts we wanted to add effects. After discussing we asked our Media technician, Jack, to kindly help us create effects like split screens and filters. Hayley later on then created different types of split screens with different transitions to give more of an impact, for example three-way split screen. We wanted to include some of the shots in split screens to give it a more romcom effect; that was one of the main codes and conventions of a romcom. When doing the split screen Hayley had to make sure that both the shots were at the right equalisation otherwise the split screens would look a bit odd and weird. She did the split screens through transitions of the shots coming downwards.

 Towards the end we made the shots short so that it creates tension of something bad happening to the audience due to short takes. We decided to have some of the scenes tinted and added colour to make them look more vibrant and entertaining to look at making the sequence brighter giving the romcom feeling. The arrangement of our title sequence is non-linear due to the match on action being shown of the two characters. 

Later on during the week we refined the sequence by using Magic Bullet looks at the beginning shots so that they are more brighter as well as cleaning up and refining parts.

Lastly we added the titles that i created one by one onto Final Cut Pro. When we was adding the titles we had to make sure that they were in a order in which title credits are usually put in and had to crop them so that they don't show for too long. Here we used the dissolving in and out editing technique so that the titles are presented smoothly. We also told Hayley to edit the titles by changing the brightness extremely high so that the text is white and therefore is legible to read. I didn't realise when i was making the titles that black would be hard to read however this problem overcame smoothly as white text represents romcom genre more strongly than black.