Construction - Composing the Soundtrack

 

I went through each part of the edit to change the volume of each layer in the track to make it suit the final edit.
I also gained inspiration from some of these tracks.

These are screen shots of the ideas and soundtracks I was trying to find that were 'Royalty Free' / Copyright free music. After I had found a couple of soundtracks I took ideas from them and also downloaded the ones I liked to see what one was my favourite. Some of them did not create tension or create the affect we are aiming for, therefore I made sure that I didn't use this track to get ideas from.

I made sure that the soundtracks I was getting ideas from were copyright free from because I planned to use parts of some of the tracks to build the suspense in the sequence.

Construction - Producing My individual edit

This is the colour grading I done to my edit. 

This is a screen shot of the shot I reversed.

Doing the final editing and making it precise. 

Individual Edit

Evaluation
We have taken many shots for the final opening title sequence, and for my individual edit I decided to put most of my favourite shots into it. It is way over the 2 minutes for the final group edit, this is because I wanted to put the whole thing together with my favourite parts.

I am quite proud of my colour grading on some parts of the edit. I colour graded each shot the same as the shots and made sure the darker shots were light enough that they would match the other shots. I matched them up so the sequence flows smoothly.

In my edit, I made sure that I included match-on-action shots and as many different techniques as possible. I also used fast cuts at the end of the sequence to create more tension. When 'Charlie' (Ricky) was walking along the sidewalk before he takes a picture of the victim (Max), I cut out parts of the shot to build tension as he was walking towards the destination. I also reversed the shot of Ricky getting the camera out of his bag, so that we see him putting the camera back in the bag too. I decided to do this just it see how it looked, however I know that to cut our final edit to 2 minutes we will not need to reverse this shot.

When I colour graded the shots I refered back to the L4 example on the blog, 'The Edge'. This is because the colour grading on the piece of work is similar to how I pictured my edit to be.