Post production part 2

In the last two days of editing, my group decided to change our idea up, this is because we didn't film everything on our shot list and we used other shots instead. One of the ideas we changed up was the filming through one of our props which was a pentagram, this was done with a focus pull, after the dog walker was filmed the camera would have zoomed out and focused on the prop. We ended up doing a pan from the dog walker to a pentagram instead. This didn't directly impact our narrative because it was already changed due to us not being able to film everything. 

Our group created tension by the dog walker going from the right to left off the screen, which is going against the normal which creates an uncertainty, as the audience doesn't know what he is walking into. Suspense is created in our title sequence by the use of music behind the dog walker, which gets louder and more intense throughout the camera following him. Furthermore, our scenes are very unpredictable and our events have slow build ups so it creates tension. 

The audience would want to carry on watching the film due to the natural flow of our editing, the scenes go along with the music and the build up of tension gets more dramatic the further in to the sequence. Some of our editing choices like focus pulling grabs the watchers attention more, this is due to the mysterious feeling seeing


something in the background but not being able to properly see it until the focus pull. This mystery creates an engagement which builds up until the very end of our title sequence where our dog walker screams, and then there is a cut to black with the title of our film the 'Gathering'. This makes the audience want to know what happened, and how the sets got there as well as where the dog goes. 

My group made the titles using the editing software caption section, from what my group did together, before I was ill, we picked the font that we wanted. This was easy to find as we wanted a rough sketching scary font, this same font was used throughout the title sequence. The names we chose for the directors and the actors were not my groups names, this is due to our group not being able to actually include our real names in the sequence due to privacy issues. We came up with names which were mixed from various actors, and our title overall took us a while to come up with but we eventually settled on a very name which reflects our sequence. 

Our sound editing went very well, it took my group a while to settle on a background music sound, but it ended up fitting our sequence nicely. The sound transitions in-between shots were very rough, going from a clear speech to a muffled quiet voice, this was resolved by using constant power and sound bridges, the use of these smoothened the transition of sound in-between our shots. One of the other problems we faced was finding the right sound of the dog, all the ones we came across didn't fit the type of dog cry we wanted, but we ended up finding a fitting one on the effects folder. This arises problems of finding the best place to put it where it didn't overpower the sound too much and ruin the pace of the title sequence, on the final day of editing we misplaced the sound effect and deleted the wrong sound effect, this was quickly resolved the next day by finding the misplaced sound and putting it in the right place.

In our title sequence we also used one sound effect, this was the sound of the dog screaming. Our group edited this into the sequence because of the shot we used which was of the dog walker, looking up at towards where the sound came from, then running towards it. This sound would be the dog squealing and sounding like it is in pain, which then goes into a scene of our dog walker running towards the sound. 

Overall the title sequence looks very good, my group are very satisfied with the end result. With the mix of using top quality 4k black magic cameras and being able to use adobe plus, our title sequence looks professionally filmed. With our use of focus pulls and the clean transitions in our editing the sequence looks very good, with the titles over the sequence also there is always something for the audience to focus on so they don't get bored.