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.