Summary of new edit

Small summary of what I think of the new edit compared to the other;

Above is the new edit which has beeen uploaded to YouTube.

Personally I am rather happy with  the way that our new opening tile sequence looks as it more engaging for the audience and is to an extent easier to follow. I still think the editing of overlapping footage could have possibly been less applied but, that is no means a critical comment because it does set up enigmas of the narrative and gives transition from frame to fame. So, completely losing it would have been less beneficial then applying it less frequently. If there is time I would like to possibly ask people to watch it and try and get some feedback of what they think our opening tile sequence is about that way if there is a major problem it will need to be re-thought. But, obviously as the deadline has practically gone it would be in the groups best interest that small changes were rectified quickly. 

Taking into account people's thoughts would be a good idea as the public are the way revenue is made therefore, they would be the main reliance for support for the film to do well.

Changes to Mr Teddy

Changes to the opening title sequence; call me Mr teddy 

Editing 

Editing; this was the main thing that was commented upon thus the need to spend the most of our time on this part of the opening title sequence. First of all, when the clip was loaded we all sat around the macintosh and Louise and Nicola had showed me what they previous,y worked upon on upon the feedback lesson and what they had achieved was to take away some of the clips where I was writing because it became far to repetitive and too much elliptical editing was being replicated. Now, the sequence uses less by e cooperating less which makes it more simple and easy to understand which needed to be addressed because the understanding of the clip has to be simplistic to follow as there is such a mass audience.

We then collectively, looked at the clip and placement of clips need to be finished off in terms of the editing and also the clips needed to cut as some re-entered clips we chose to use were too long and became boring. The most placements that needed to be made was the sound clips; the foley sound because when moving the clips it was more of an after thought, which I completely agree with as we all know they work our main priority is flow in narrative representation.

Titles and transitions 

There was some work that needed to be endured to the titles although, most was very minor they needed to be completed for the opening title sequence to look sophisticated and to a degree existing in the world of film. So what I needed to as tiles co-ordinator was to make sure that the placement of the fonts was maintained. I had to do this by moving one of the last fonts that had been moved to the centre. This was the frame with the title Peter Howitt , the director and all I did to his frame was centred the font. I also had to correct the inconsistency of universals and universal studio by actually searching which was right and it was universal actor ding to there logo from film and web-page.

The transitions endured were minimal, it was simply just cross fading any clips that were rendered as well as the box slide. It did becoming re-occupant that these had to keep changing but, Daisy did the task implicitly. The sound also impacted this part and we did have to keep checking that the title appeared on the screen when a change of tone was hinted by a change in rhythm.

Continuity 

We had to try and express the narrative more simply as it was far to hard to understand and become very fragmented and too much was happening at once but, we have withdrawn some of the clips that had overlaying clips and I feel it has made the clip more successful. I do have a worry still though that are too many clips still evident but, it has definitely been improved. I worry that our project is far to editorial based as oppose to just simplistic filming with one narrative of clear films. The re-assurance that I have in our project is that all of our case study's into opening tile sequences exploring spy and action followed the same convention. 

The opening title sequence does still heavily rely upon the sound, transitions and tiles for continuity in text as oppose to footage but, this works well and creates the concept of the chase between good and evil or hero and monster.

Adding in new clips

We chose to add in some clips in order to make the opening tile sequence longer so that it fit convention of the regular timing of an opening tile sequence which is usually; 2.30-3.00 minutes. One clip added was me doing a cartwheel with a gun and I feel that the using of the clip was a great decision as the movement itself embodies a style of action therefore works well alongside what we have already used. We also decided to keep some clips that caused previous confusion but we instead of overlapping them with over footage it was decided to make them separate.

Other changes that were made was rather minimal but, we did focus more upon the footage and work that we had already made as oppose to re-starting any filming. I think this proved fine to make a good edit but, possibly more back-up footage could have proved essential or a safety net.

Feedback on Mr Teddy Opening titles

Below is our feedback on the Mr. teddy opening title sequence first screening and generally it is not the most pleasing feedback but the constructive criticisms will be worked upon to get a better resolution. Generally, people commented on the confusion of the opening title sequence as too much overlay of footage was evident for the narrative to be shown to the audience which I can understand as a lot is happening at once. So, this would be an edit change as the editing I think could possibly do with a bit less overlay as at one point there is two things happening at once in the filming, then a title comes up and then it just confusing obviously, this sets up enigmas but, we don't want a sense of ambiguity where nothing is understood as the narrative of our film won't be expressed.

Generally, the work that I did on the titles and movement where liked and credited but, I do think that the overall feel of the opening titles stylistically, is not fluid in transition therefore, offers confusion so it would probably be better to move the footage making the opening title sequence longer and then avoiding to use elliptical editing as two things at once proves confusing. To improve we could possibly consider making one piece of footage really light so it is barely see but, whatever happens there must be one focus instead of three.

One thing that I also know that I will need to change is the placement of the titles as I missed one important placing involving the director and it ended up being half way through the page not following the trend of the other titles so I plan to move that title down to the right corner in the bottom much like the others. In terms of the star rating I was not put off as still with the slight mistakes it was offered 2 stars and three stars which just proves that we have something to work with. 

The ending of our opening title sequence was praised and that was more simplistic then anything we had placed in the opening title sequence and just abided by the filming rather then more then two things going at once which I felt worked fantastically so, we could use this filming and this scenes and frames as a slight style modal and then constructively make our sequence much like this throughout. The editing I feel could possibly also aim to put my action in.

31/01/13

Today, was the first viewing of the classes opening titles sequences collectively, we had to show what each of our groups had produced and then, get some feedback. Collectively as a class we all judged everyone thus getting well rounded feedback from not only the students but our teacher and the technician too. The process was not really structured in term soft that group went after each other’s as we all just went by preference.

When, it got to the stage that our group was about to show, Miss Whittaker went onto YouTube as, our opening titles was already put onto the video stream and then everyone watched. After, everyone watched it was time to start receiving feedback from selected candidates to speak per each group. Personally, feedback is hard to take but, is justifiable when it will help to improve our finished product.

The main criticism was the fact that people couldn’t focus upon the editing as there were too many overlapping images that the editing made people miss certain shots thus getting confused. Our teacher commented on this and said that this needs to improve in order to give an insight into the narrative and the thematic of the film which I completely agree because when looking back it is slightly hard to keep focus on one thing without another distracting the first frame, which can be rectified after school. I do plan to come back after school within the next week to make some changes to this with hopefully my group but, the date is yet to be scheduled.

In terms of my positions within the opening title sequence, they could have been better performed by me in one of the roles. Personally, feel that the continuity of the sequence needs re-thinking as, if it is hard to understand then this box is not being as it were ticked spa I plan to make some shots smaller and less overlap of frames. But, I am fairly happy with my performance with the titles as people complemented the way that the titles worked well with the music, transitions and the general look of them.

The mistakes will be rectified with the upcoming week for timing purposes as we do need to start thinking ahead for the exam.