Editing: Day Three

Day 3 was yet again another step forward as we finally seemed to get to grips with our roles and managed to finish more as a result. Othman had been editing with the footage through final cut express and had inverted the colours, making the characters know black and coloured. This allowed us to have a preview of what the final edited footage would look like, which was important. We also managed to integrate our Saul Bass inspired animated lines into the edit. From this we had assistance and learnt that we could use a slug and crop and shape it into a bar that we could then key-frame to move both down and up.

I took to managing the text for the opening sequence. For this I used photoshop and created a list of credits we were to have in opening. After knowing the exact text we would use, creating it was a simple matter of typing the credits and adding the desired blending options to them, for example drop shadow and colour. The hardest part was selecting the colour we would use for the text. Initially we decided to use black, but then realised that both the characters and slug bars were black and the text would therefore not stand out. I then decide to look at the “iPod advert” that we had learnt was quite similar to our own opening and viewed the text they had chosen. They had used white text on their backgrounds and we felt that this was the best option for our text. We felt that the colour was bold enough to be seen on the background and also smart.



Finally to Ja'van who had the task of creating the institution opening and logo. We collectively decided that we wanted to have the title of institution “Anchor Films” on the animation and a ocean background (in relation to the anchor), we also wanted to add a descending anchor image but were halted as our teacher thought that it would take to long to do and was unnecessary, however the thought still lingered in our minds. We had a decision to make on our hands.  

“You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.”
― Michelle Obama