It’s 09/02/2011 and all three recreations of the chosen film openings have been created.
'The Strangers' and 'Vertigo' were both simple to edit. With no transitions, apart from several fade to blacks, they took less than two hours to achieve. However, despite how simply both of them were they are still off their estimated predicted time by a second or two. The same thing also occured on 'Juno', making me ask what did we do wrong; my simple conclusion is due to the transitions lapping over shots we miscalculated by several seconds. The Strangers also included a voiceover that reads the sentences shown on the screen. Our group did this with no problem as we did it all in one recording that lasted nearly a minute. However, speaking to other groups I discovered that they tried doing a separate voiceover for each sentence that seemed to end up in hard work as the voiceover would often carry on or cut short from the sentences on screen.
Juno was hard to edit and time consuming. Throughout the clip, two shots would happen in one frame (eg. crab in background tracking up front). This left us thinking outside the box and splitting scenes in two, halving their shot time so we can still fit both in, however, they now have their own shots. Juno also had names appear in separate, unique ways compared to other openings which caused us to experiment with what iMovie fonts fitted best with the one from the original opening. Often, the names would appear in the top or bottom corners of Juno however you can’t just do this by a touch of a button. Instead, we had to hold the spacebar button down until it reached where the text should be located; this too was time consuming. Also we used a drawn background in several shots and this showed parts of the whiteboard we stuck it to, so many shots had to be cropped during editing so that the opening seemed to be filmed perfectly with the size of the background.
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