14. CONSTRUCTION - Finishing with Music, Title and Credits

FINALIZING THE MUSIC, TITLE AND CREDITS TO PRODUCE OUR FINAL OUTCOME

From the 24th of March up until the 3rd of April we used this time to finalize our film opening to create the finished product which all our group were to be happy with. Compared to the last draft we have changed a few things to make it better.
This is what we changed:

• The first thing that we did was to tighten up most of the editing as after watching it back it appeared that a few things were not perfect, for example when the girl walks up the stairs our of the shot, we cut about half a second off that, and also off the next shot where she comes in through the door.

• The second thing we did was to sort our a few shots. We rotated the camera shot of her feet walking across the hallway as we did not do this in our draft. We also changed lighting and increased the brightness of the first few shots of the 3 people running as we filmed this bit in the dark and the quality wasn't very good, and the shots were too dark.

• The third thing that we did was to sort our the music that we were going to include. On our previous draft we chose a section of music from the horror film The Ring as it was typical "horror movie" music and thought that it fitted well with our scene as it helped build up tension. However, we chose a different section of music from The Ring for our final draft so it flowed better than it did in our draft. We kept the music constant right from where she was walking up the stairs as we thought this was better. We used dark, low tone music as it fitted with that was happening.
  

• The next thing was to change the position of the title. In our previous draft we had the title fade in on the end shot but we decided to change this. We decided to position it on it's own on a black screen straight after the girl has been attacked where it cuts off. We thought we'd do this as we want it to go into a different scene of the girl dead which would have happened a few minutes later, so we positioned the title there to give the sense that some time has passed. We had also seen this used quite a few times in our research, I saw this on Scream and House of Wax and decided that it was very effective.
  

• The next thing we did was to add the credits. In our previous draft we had not added those in as we hadn't decided on where we wanted them to be. We had decided to position them after the main action, the attack, had happened, so we wouldn't distract the audience from watching the attack. We had them fading in and out while we see the dead body as nothing much is happening at this point, the audience have time to see the credits and the dead body. We didn't make the credits too big or distracting as we thought this was best and didn't want to draw too much attention to them and we also had them going on after the action so we didn't overwhelm the audience with too much going on at once.
  

• Another thing we did was to sort out the sound and sound effects. In the first few shots that we filmed outside of the 3 teenagers running away from the siren it was very windy and we could hear the wind too much when reviewing this bit. We decided to dub out the sound and add in a windy sound effect instead, and only using the piece of dialogue that was said. We also had to add in sound effects of footsteps. In a way I felt a bit disappointed in this, but as we filmed it with the sound quality not so good we had to do this.
  

Here is the final version which is finished:





Our final version can also be seen on the DVD as is the preliminary task.