RESEARCH: FILMING & EDITING IN FINAL CUT

Make a post explaining this project: the brief, the filming, the editing (any challenges involved) plus photo. Take a screen shot or two of particularly challenging / interesting moments in your edit. Express yourself in an analytical rather than descriptive way. use screenshots and photos to illustrate. Comment on challenges that you faced, For instance:

Our brief was to film and edit a short opening sequence in order to practise working on title sequences for films. 

We had to work with an existing musical track Banana Pancakes and we chose a variety of props. Before embarking on the filming, we watched two opening sequences that used tracking shots with some rostrum shots: Delicatessen and Immortal Beloved.

Together as a team we filmed it using the Canon 650 camera. We used an elongated tracking shot to hover over the different objects that we had laid out. For our piece we used objects that help symbolise the seaside; we laid them out across a map which was used to hint at the travelling theme. Towards the end we added some live action to hold suspense for the viewer. 

We used Final Cut Pro to edit our preliminary exercise in which we edited a film opening with sound and titles to the soundtrack of Banana Pancakes. It was a new experience for all of us which helped us to develop our editing skills and increase our knowledge of the software. We used a variety of different fonts before finalising the one that we chose to use. We clicked the 'Title and Generators' button in the top-left corner of Final Cut Pro to generate our title. We found it challenging to find the perfect font to match our happy-go-lucky theme.