Question 6: 1 .We used the software Final Cut to edit our opening sequence.

At first I found this software quite hard to use. However by the end of editing I believe it will suffice to say I am skilled in using it. <<<2.When making the soundtrack we used garage band. To create the soundtrack we used the keyboard linked to the software

3.We uploaded our footage of the Cannon 600d camera directly into I movie, and it was from there that we exported the footage,, after we deleted the useless shots, directly into Final Cut.

4.The software live type was use to create our titles. We made sure we matched them up directly with our slow motion shots in final cut in terms of time, and then uploaded them to final cut.

We used two cameras when filming. This made it much easier to edit also as it would cut to exactly same shot just from a different angle.

A list of the equipment used. - Still camera -Tripod -Canon 600d camera -Microphone -Boom -Camera rig -Dolly

We filmed our close ups of the chips, gun, glasses and bottles and then added this footage into imovie. We then made the titles in livetype.

These skills were all developed and found there way into our opening sequence. We followed the storyboard as much as we could. We used two cameras. One on a dolly and the other on the camera rig. Two people were filming, Sam Bates and myself. I should note that one skill we did not use, although I wish we did, was a long steady arc shot. We got the shot, however the sound of the dolly arcing round was too loud on the microphone and therefore we could not use it. It is a shot that is conventional to our genre, so its a shame we could not incorporate said shot into our piece.

When filming the poker scene, we used two red heads for lighting and a spotlight. The spotlight went over the table, and the redheads lit the boxes and woodwork, to make our media room look like a warehouse. We only used a spotlight for the torture scene. We had to transform the room into a warehouse. This meant bringing wood from outside, stacking up boxes in the background, and paying close attention to the lighting. What we found difficult when filming was to keep our (Sams ad my own) shadows out of the shot. They kept projecting on the table. To prevent this, Sam and I had to communicate constantly and trial our shots a couple of times before.

-Important note. We bought a new petrol canister. It had not been used. We filled the canister up with warm water. Our actor took regular breaks were we untied him and un-blind folded him.

In terms of editing:

1.I developed my skills of editing the audio. This was really important to our sequence as the soundtrack could not be too loud and the character dialogue could not be too quite. I played around, editing, using the pen tool to drag the audio level down at certain points and then drag it up at other points.

2. I learnt how to apply transitions. Transitions such as dissolves are very conventional to our genre. Cutting from the torture scene back to the poker scene without the dissolve seemed to harsh. I used around 3 dissolves all together and making them the correct duration was I skill I developed. 3.We also used parallel editing. Cutting from one scene to another. In between this, during the poker scene, we used continuity editing. Finally, in the torture segments we used jump cutting mentioned before in the evaluation to reflect the hard sharpness of the violent act. These are all editing techniques I learnt and applied.

4. We recorded the voiceover in the recording studio using the software Cuebase. I then edited it in, specifically over the torture scene and over the freeze frame. Voiceovers are conventional to our genre.

6.I applied the editing technique of using colour correction to our opening sequence. To give it that Mafia gritty feel I edited the overall colour to sepia for the flashing images at the very beginning. This editing technique was similar to desaturating the colour for the torture scene to black and white.

What we did not plan to originally use were freeze frames. However, once I had learnt how to create them we new they would make an authentic addition to our piece. First I made a freezeframe by screen printing the shot and then blowing it up in Photoshop. However this reduced the quality greatly. I then learnt how to do it through final cut. Once I had learnt how to do it, we used freeze frames a lot in our piece. Similar to in Goodfellas, we freeze framed our protagonist and then added a voiceover. The freeze frame allows the audience to establish who the protagonist is. I should note that this shot, of Vinny smoking; we did not film on the day of filming. We filmed this on a separate day and then colour corrected it to sepia. We made sure it was an extreme close up so the audience could not see that he was in fact wearing different clothing. These are examples of more filming and editing techniques we have used in our group.

We then took freeze frames of the entire sequence and placed around 6 of them in between our slow motion shots. They flash on the screen very quickly; very similar to the Mafia film Donnie Brasco studied for my textual analysis during preproduction. As mentioned before, another editing technique we learnt and utilized was decreasing the speed of a shot (slow motion).

Donnie Brasco: An example of the flashing images that break up the pace of the slow motion shots, as the titles come up. This is where the basis for our titles stemmed from. In Donnie Brasco it established the characters and setting before the actual dialogue has even began. The dramatic tone of the film has also already been established as the soundtrack was so emotional.