Editing, Blogs and Magazine Covers

In our lesson today, Dean was absent due to an exam, but the rest of us were able to carry on work and we feel that we really made good use of our time.

Editing
Ben took control of our editing today, and made a lot of progress. As mentioned before, we wanted the ending of our trailer to feature computerised writing and a flashing spacer which would fit in the the clock sound and resemble a heartbeat. After we discovered that there was no established way to do this, we had a discussion last week of how we could create such an effect and we are pleased that it worked. Ben did this by using the title creator; he chose a title template which had the text as centered on a black background and did so for each letter of 'Deadline'. But the way the title works is that each letter would disappear as the next one came up, so he used all the past letters for each letter that came for example it went "D" "De" "Dea'' etc, this meant also gave thetitle a very computery flash to its text. He then created what looked like a flashing cursor before the text was written, he did this by making a title that was just a line followed by a title of nothing but the black background and he repeated it three times and also by making the line last slightly longer than the blank parts it gave it the look of a flashing computer cursor before the text seems to be typed. We also managed to create a few new sequences and improve upon the timing on the ones we already had but we do need to film some more; we need an intro where Alex and Dean seem to just be having a peaceful, happy time together, we need some shots of Alex running, Ben dragging Dean and the second ending of Alex finding a phone which is showing Dean tied up and tortured.

Blog
Today we also took some time to improve on the layout and functioning of our blog, putting in more useful links and building up what we had done lately. We felt that this was important to keep us up-to-date and as the project is coming together we were able to see what gadgets we could make use of and how our blog would feel to users reading it. We added links to our Flickr and YouTube accounts so that our videos and pictures can be accessed easily.

Magazines
In this lesson me (Kathryn) and Sam also started research for their magazines and created their own blogs to record their progress. We will all do this so as to keep our individual work clear and easy to find. We started looking at existing magazine covers and analysing what makes them successful. Find more of our work on the magazine covers and posters on our individual blogs via the links on the side bar.