Final Cut Morana opening

Our final cut of the film Morana.
The video has been succesful and the end we feel is especially effective as the growling comes in just as the main character finishes speaking, revealing her name without actually saying it.

Voiceover

We've made adjustments to our script for the voiceover in light of our decision of the title being the lead female's name. We've decided that in order to show the audience this is her name from the beginning the last thing she says, after the fight and right before the title will be "I know who i am". The rest of the script will have only minor adjustments and will be as follows:

EXT. Playground
(Girl,, sitting alone)

Voice over:
What am i?
(gap of silence)
Why am I here?
(gap of silence)
What's going on?

the fight scene will then begin, and as she walks away the last line of the voiceover will be:
"i know who i am"

screen shots

These are some screen shots we have taken during our last two lessons of editing.

This screen grab shows the shot of blood dripping, we haven't altered this alot but we did alter the brightness and contrast slightly to make it seem more like duck and to make the blood effect look more realistic.


This shot is from just after she has killed the attacker and the camera pans up slowly, as you can see in comparison to our roughcut the shot is alot darker. We altered the brightness and contrast and desaturated it to make it darker, the colours more simple and dark and also its given a shadow to her face that fits well with the supernatural genre and the mystery of our character.

This screen grab shows the attackers landing, we used the same editing techniques as the above, and also cut this with another shot of him rising from his landing. The timings to make it smoother was something that took alot of time as we wanted it to look like one smooth movement- this fits with our image of the supernatural characters as having fluid and graceful movements.


This shows the swing shot and also the effects we applied to it, we used mostly the same effects on all the shots (brightness and contrast and desaturation) but we had to do each individually due to each having different levels of light, and different colours.


This shows the majority of our timeline, we've kept the diagetic sound as it gives added effect and gives emphasis when the music does come in despite our soundtracks simplistic nature.



These two shots are an example of all the editing aspects as one, they show what we altered on the specific clips, what elements made up our final piece and also our timeline.

Rough cut

This is the piece so far. the whole thing sounded too quiet so we added a simple bit of music. The Animal sound at the end I think is effective in showing something about the character, it implies that she has animalistic characteristics. The flashes at the end also help to give more drama to the opening.



For the final cut all we have left to do is:
add a voice over
Put in the ident
Clean it up/add effects
and possibly film a bit more footage as our piece may be a tad short. (1:20 min without ident)