Production Log week 8

an example of Photoshop

The past week me and my partner have been doing a lot of editing as we have finished our production. We have created our film title logo using Adobe Photoshop which took a while to get used to as I am not familiar with this software. So we had a play around with the effects and features to see how this works which was helpful. We also decided to create our production logo using Macromedia Fireworks, because we wanted to add a layer of an image behind the text and we thought Fireworks is more suitable and easier to achieve this. Also we had to create other titles on iMovie as we were running out of time and didn't know how to add titles over the film using Livetype. Our film contains some titles running during the film and some of them are placed on a black screen cutting between the shots in a scene. We had to do this, to make a break between shots that are non-continuous so that it flows more better. We added the most important titles on the black screen and the less important ones are shown during the shots at the bottom of the screen.

Another issue was creating sound. As we cannot take other Artists' music due to copyright laws, the best option at hand was to create it ourselves. We attempted this using Garageband which is a new software we used in a Mac. We had played with many different types of sound using Garageband but we were unsatisfied with our work, because me and my partner are inexperienced with making sound. I resolved this issue by kindly asking a friend of mine who has the experience we seek and he accepted our request in creating a sound for us to use in our production. However we had an issue with time as we only had a matter of days before we had a draft deadline of our production and our friend didn't have much free time to compose the music to the best of his ability. Nonetheless he managed to produce a sufficient piece of sound using Logic Pro and I quickly incorporated that into my production. I also found out the music was not long enough to fully cover the scene we wanted, so I had to extend the scene by adding another layer and trimming the sound in the second layer to match with the first layer.

an example of Logic Pro