Editing: Adobe After Effects CS5

Our group identified that in order to make our film look effective we need to use a wider variety of software in order to attain this. We opted to use Adobe After Effects CS5 as our inspiration into creating a production with better visual media than was presented last year. After Effects offers a great range of effects and transitions that you can apply to images, like this smoke effect you see in the image above. By having these effects in our production our group are enabled to present a better representation of the type of movie we are trying to portray, as if we can manipulate the effects we want to portray to create meaning. For instance this smoke effect in a red tint represents danger connotates a violent abruption which unfolds during the outset of the story. 

Editing: Title sequence

Our group had met and discussed the effect that we wanted to portray in the ope
ning title sequence. As you can see above we decided to use a very bold black text to outline the names of the people within our film, alongside short establishing shots of areas around Victoria and Vauxhall. We mainly did this to establish the scene where the majority of the storyline is going to be held. When combining all the shots that we took we found that they complimented each other and alongside music worked very effectively during the transitions and effects we put during the title sequence.

Editing: Software

To edit our film the software we have decided to use this year is Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. Our group felt as if that this piece of software offered more in effects and provided a more precise level of cuts than the previous piece of software we used last year which was iMovie. CS5 has further enhancements such as color corrections and other effects which will give our production a much more movie feel, whereas this wouldn't be the case on other editing pieces of software.