Sound

Today I suggested to Maisie I think the eerie, suspense sound should start the main character is first alone. This way it signifies to the audience that an event is going to occur because we had this beginning from the start but it wasn't creating meaning correctly.

Completed - Production Ident

Today me and Maisie completed keying out the green screen from our 'floating hand' for our Production identification. My initial idea was for it to appear as a gypsy/ physic/ medium type thing, mystical and magical. To do this I filmed Maisie's (starting in the shape of a shell) gradually opening whilst turning round infront of a green screen (very hard to find brightest light for best quality!). My aim was to once finished chroma keying, was to design and create a background (night sky with stars) on photoshop and import this into the moving image on final cut express along with another still of the crystal ball which would appear gradually as the hand revealed it. This turned out to be a months long project and was therefore unsuitable so instead we decided to have the globe appear after the hand had finished its 180degree turn. This was highly more convenient and do-able. I decorated Maisie's fingers in rings because that is how I imagined a readers hand would be like from stereotypes I had previously seen on TV, (probably from watching to many Disney films). Creating this probably took more time than the opening sequence itself! We had to search for the stars on the internet, download them, convert them, then import them. We used the colour gradient tool on photoshop to make the blue background seem more realistic (lighter towards the bottom because of street lights and so on from residential areas below.) As for the globe, we spent hours trying to make it look 3D not just a solid colour, so we fiddled with the inner and outer glow buttons untill we were satsified! To finish it off I wanted a twinkle, magic, 'fairy' sound to play as the hand moves, we found this on youtube and changed it into a MP3 file them dragged it into Final cut express. Final product looked reasonably good, but not how I originally hoped. Below is a print screen of the Production Ident.

Group Meeting - Cuts

There is to be a group discussion on Monday the 14th Feb to elaborate on any editing done so far that we think needs altering and to share any new worries or thoughts.

Now that all the clips have been put into order I think we need  to be generous cutters and cut out anything that isn't essential to the understanding of the narrative because otherwise it will end up dragging on and on and will be extremely boring - no one wants to watch a film like that.

Changes to - Filming Date

Filming was originally suppose to take place on Sunday 30th January, however due to complications with various factors such as unavailable actors and unsuitable weather, it has now been postponed to Thursday 3rd February. Have checked this with all invloved.