Firstly we downloaded all of our footage to iMovie. We looked at the different sections of footage and chose the clips we liked the most. Once they were saved to iMovie, we exported them to QuickTime before importing the clips into Final Cut.
Once we had the clips imported to Final Cut, we placed different clips in different places and tried a few different approaches, before deciding on the order that we liked. Then it was time to add in sound effects, transitions and titles. We opened up some Opening Titles that we had designed on Live Type to place into Final Cut. However, our teacher took a look at the titles and advised us to change them, so we re-designed them on Final Cut and they looked a lot better. It also meant that we could move the titles around the screen, instead of just having them smack bang in the centre of the frame. Titles in, we loaded sound clips that we had previously saved from www.freesound.com and worked with those, too, in different places, different sequences, different volumes, until we agreed on a preference. When the sound was finished and all non-diagetic sound was added, we focused on the transitions between shots. We added in a few cross-fades, but as our opening is fairly jumpy and disjointed, there weren't many transitions that we needed to add, or we would ruin the effect that we were aiming for.
Once our editing was finished, a couple of girls came into the room, so we asked them to watch our film opening and tell us what they thought of the final product. They both agreed that it was good, and said that if the film was released as a full film, they would both want to watch it.
We decided we liked the final product, so we saved our work and exported it again to QuickTime, and voila, we had our finished film opening, Project : Shadow.We then burned the finished product onto a DVD, along with our Preliminary Task, and added in a spooky soundtrack to our titles.
