Production Update

Over the past week I have been solely concentrating on editing and completing my main task, this being the opening title sequence.

This process began by choosing pictures from the final few shots I most recently gathered. After making this decision it was then decided that I wanted each picture to be of different timings. This was because I wanted the timing to portray the mood of the scene/ setting and therefore I made the high action shots a lot smaller and the slow/ sad shots longer. For example the picture where Jimmy is visiting his biological father’s scene is 3:00 seconds and the shot where Jimmy is leaving and walking across the field, all the 5 shots are 00:23 seconds long.

When considering music I was initially going to use a number of songs throughout the opening title sequence but due to the complexity of getting the songs to sound continuous without any noticeable jumps was extreme therefore I have decided to use one song. When I first decided on using one song I chose ‘Gray Knight’ as this was very high action and portrayed determination however it did not fit well with the first few scenes where Jimmy is still living with his mother and Blake. I then tried a song called ‘Discover Tranquillity’ but again this did not fit well as it was very depressing and saddening throughout. This then led me to other songs I had found on the www.freeplaymusic.com website. After listening to a few I decided on ‘Serious Elevation’ as the beginning of the song is very slow moving and as the song goes on it increasingly gets louder and more upbeat. After downloading the song and putting on Final Cut Pro X I had to match the picture of the Manchester Wheel with the part of the song where the music changes.

I have also made the music longer than the actual opening title sequence as when the actual programme begins I want the music to still play for a few second. Furthermore, I have made the music slowly fade out instead of completely stopping.