Final two lessons of editing

Yesterday was our penultimate lesson for editing. At the beginning of this lesson we had our rough cut viewed by our media class. The feedback we received was very good, although at this point we had no soundtrack to be played with it! They liked the different shot types we used and the use of layering! As a group we felt that there needs to be more layering in the opening sequence for it to flow nicely and for it to look like a title sequence- our constructive feedback was that we needed to work on the ending as it did not work well with the footage we had edited well.

The lesson before this we worked on our soundtrack, we added in sound effects such a ticking clock, a cuckoo noise, a beating heart and also an ongoing backing track. Although the heartbeat is only faintly heard, it is still noticeable and I feel it adds tension as it is not overly obvious. Our advice was to take out the cuckoo sound effect as it spoilt the tension atmosphere we was trying to achieve.

During the lesson we managed to add all of our titles and complete and add in our ident, and work on the ending. Which consisted of; adding text and deleting the final clip we originally had as it didn't fit with the rest of the sequence, and add fades. On top of this we layered more clips.

Today is our final lesson to work on our thriller opening sequence 'Delirium'.
We need to:

• Adjust our soundtrack and add it into Final Cut
• Finish off all editing techniques (most of which was finished yesterday)
• And upload