Editing the Re-makes of Openings Diary

Session One – Thursday 3^rd February (2 hours)

In this session we uploaded our clips from the camera to the computer and we decided to first edit our re-make of Vertigo as this had the least editing needed to be done to it so we used this as an opportunity to familiarise ourselves with the basics of the iMovie program that we have used before. We managed to edit a considerable amount of the footage in this session putting everything together except for the titles. We worked well whilst doing this with one person controlling the computer and all of us discussing what we thought would look best and what would be most similar to the film opening we were copying.

Session Two – Friday 4^th February (1 hour)

In our second session one of our group members was not available and so two of us continued with the editing of the next film. We began by completing the titles on the Vertigo clip however we did find it very difficult to match the timings of the titles, music and the image on the screen in the same way as the original opening. We then began to work on our opening of The Strangers (2008) which was more time consuming than we had expected as we came across some problems using the editing equipment and it was more difficult to edit than we had imagined. We managed to put together most of the clip itself and just need to add the sound and check that the timings are correct and we can then move on to completing our Juno re-make.

Session Three- Monday 7^th February (1hour)

This session put together the sound and timings of our remake of The Strangers (2008) which worked pretty well however it was fairly difficult to match the sound with the images towards the end of the opening. This did take longer than expected however we did still have time to put the clips for Juno in the correct order ready to start working on the transitions and title’s for this re-make.

Session Four – Tuesday 8^th February (1 hour)

Today we managed to complete the editing if our Juno remake and we were able to add all of the transitions and titles in the correct places. This was fairly easy as we are now used to the editing software again and able to work quickly and efficiently. We also added the sound and are now going to be able to go over all three of our remakes to fix and tweak at timings etc. in our next session.

Session Five - Friday 11th February (1 hour)

This was our final session of editing and we were just concentrating on tweaking the last parts of timing and the overall presentation of the re-makes. We have now completed our re-makes and are ready to evaluate how well they went.