Journal 17 - Completing the Editing

Yesterday, James and I completed the Final Edit for our title sequence and I will soon upload it on YouTube and as a post on Blogger. James gave his views and opinions as well as advice on how I can improve the editing as its always great to have a second opinion. I have done the time lapse edit, slow motion edits and I have also added colour filters which I created myself along with a CCTV filter which was pre-made by Final Cut Pro X. Then last part was to add the Typography with the fonts we chose and then add the soundtrack for the Chase scene and Voiceover for the chase scene where i say "I found the target". Our teacher wanted us to re-film the desk shots but we explained to her that we tried and it looked very bad as the camera was shaky, she then said it will be fine to add a filter and to add slow motion and a black and white filter in the tear down scene. Thats why I decided to add dark filters and to slow the tear down scene to add a more dramatic effect.

I will now export the Title sequence and soon upload it on YouTube.

Journal 16 - Creating the Title for the Sequence

Today I created the title design on Photoshop and this will be used with various transitions to appear on the screen in an animated form. This will be done on Photoshop and then on Final Cut Pro X. See the images below of screenshots of when I was making the title.

I made the main logo first on photoshop, I then spilt them into three parts which will gradually transition on the screen.

After creating all this, I put the files into Final Cut Pro and editing in transitions and effects to make the title animated and appear on the screen gradually, the title video can be seen below.

Journal 15 - Choosing the Final Font and Typography

My group and I decided on the font and typography we will use for the title and the main text with cast names and production company. For the cast names and production companies we used the font Neuropol and that was also the top font in the questionnaire that I conducted.

For the main title typography, I did some research on the internet for spy fonts and I found a font called Spy Agency, that font can be seen here: http://www.dafont.com/spy-agency.font

My group and I decided we liked this font a lot and we will use it for our title. I will make the title on Photoshop and then put it into Final Cut Pro X.

Journal 14 - Finding the Soundtrack for the Chase Scene

Today I have started editing and I will soon hopefully complete the editing for the Final Title Sequence of Agent X. My group and I looked at various soundtracks and we decided to choose this one of our Opening Scene (Chase Scene).

I uploaded this chase scene soundtrack on YouTube and it was copyright free, so we decided used it for our final edit.

Editing Process of our First Edit Title Sequence

 Here are some screenshots of editing that I have done on Final Cut Pro X

I have sped up this scene on final cut pro to give a time lapse look and feel and also gives a really nice affect to the audience.

I added transitions on the start and end of the text in the first edit. I will do this in the final title sequence too, once we have picked our finalised font.



I used the blade key on Final cut pro to create a jump cut in the final scene.

I added stabilization in this video as it was very unstable and shaky because I filmed it handheld. With the stabilization this scene looks very smooth and more professional.

Journal 5 - Starting a Rough Edit

I have started a rough edit of the title sequence and I have put the shots together on Final cut. The indoor shots all look fine but the issue is with the establishing shot. The establishing shots are not straight and they are all slightly slanted as the tripod used was faulty and we didn't realise this when we filmed the shots. This means we are going to have to re-film the establishing shots found at the start of the title sequence. We will reshoot these shots after the first edit is done, the reshot scenes will be used in the final edit of our title sequence.

Journal 4 - Indoor Shots

My group and I filmed some of the indoor shots which are the final shots we need to complete our title sequence. Some of these shots may need to be reshot along with some of the establishing shots if they didn't look good. We also filmed the investigation wall shots as well which will be used in the rough edit. I filmed most of the indoor shots and the investigation wall shots, but when I needed to be in the scenes the shots were then filmed by Thomas.

To do some of these shots we used the digital SLR Camera, lighting and various props such as passports, credit cards and mobile phone along with a gun.

I will soon start editing the shots we have and create a rough edit to see which shots we may need to redo.