Portrait of Place (with James Mellors): Editing

Editing our film was very successful, and with some advice from our module tutor, we made a few changes to clean up the film and make the turning point more pronounced through faster cuts and a repeated cut between the sun and the protagonist.

Here are some screen shots of the edit:

As for my personal contribution, I was responsible for titles and effects. In a few places I played with a cross-fade that was technically created by dipping the opacity between two scenes using keyframes, as opposed to a transition. I kept the title and credits brief due to length of the film. 

When exporting our film, we had to reduce the quality of the film because the higher quality quicktime file would not play without freezing and jumping. Luckily we played it through to discover this, and managed to change it before burning the film for presentation. This will affect the video quality on screen, but it is a playable file at least.

We also had our first taste of DVD Studio Pro, and by using a basic manual, we managed to create a clean and relevant menu for our DVD. 

Along with this we created a disc with a Quicktime file of the film.