Movie Opener First Cut

Movie Opener  

Beginning to Edit week 2

 This week my partners Corey and Michael continued to edit our film opener on adobe premier pro and started to completely finish our editing for our first draft.

This week I continued editing the film opener and had the clips in order , I did most of the work at home. This week was much harder because as I added more things to the workspace the program became slower and would freeze causing what would normally take a minute to take 5.

Since I had all the clips in order to make the film opener flow smoother I decided to add transitions in certain spots. I mostly used the default transition with a bit of a zoom transition and nothing fancy because it would make the film seem like it had too much going on.

The last major thing I did was add the two Free music soundtracks I selected before I created the project. Adding the sound track was simple however trimming it to the right point and length was the majority of the work. I decided to put one at the end and beginning instead of having music during the film.

Beginning to Edit week 1

  This week my group (Corey angelo and Michael manning) started to edit our film opener video. We edited it on the program " Adobe Premier Pro" which I have used previously in for other films and other classes.

I first put all the videos and resources I needed into a file in my student number  so I could make sure I had everything and nothing got lost. I numbered the clips in order so it could make it easier for me to add them later without having to go back into my phone to see the order.

I started by first opening a blank workspace in  adobe premier pro and started by importing all my  videos then after that I created a new title layer for the intro which included the name of our movie.

After creating the intro I added the videos into the timeline in order which was hard because they were all mixed up and the cross cutting between the 2 characters on the phone made it even harder. 

Beginning to film week 2

 This week my group Corey and Michael finished our filming

After filming the videos of Donte outside we next filmed my entrance into the house to introduce the new and final setting. We used a following shot and panned up at the beginning which was a cool idea.

We next filmed the videos of Corey finding the body which we filmed out of order but it did not matter because we would fix these later. We had to film it as if everything just occurred and had Corey act super surprised to add suspense and keep you wondering what is happening.

Our last clip was of Corey finding out that the intruder was inside. This was the best shot because we had a red light turn on from pitch black which was very intense. This was the dramatic scene conclusion that tied the whole film together 

Beginning to film week 1

 This week my group Corey and Michael started to film for our film opener

The first video we took was inside Corey's house and it focused on the tv show he was watching  to show that he was relaxing in his house. The house is not well light with the only light from the Christmas tree and kitchen.

After finishing the clips inside we filmed the clips of Donte outside on the phone they were filmed as if Corey was actually talking to him so when we edited it later it could switch back and forth and look good. Surprisingly the lamp post gave good lighting  and made for a good establishing shot of our second character.

While Donte was on the phone we filmed a sperate video of him walking towards the door. The video started in the front of Donte and moved to the side as he approached to reveal that I was actually behind him and showed me grabbing him. This is personally my favorite shot because it adds suspense and shock revealing me.