FINISHED

I believe I have now produced my final edit of my opening sequence.
As it is a week early, I will return to it throughout the week to ensure that it is finished to my high standards.
I have added all my titles credits successfully, and believe they are well incorporated into my sequence.
My first title is of my candidate number, centre number and name for the examiner. After this is when my film begins. It is obvious when it starts because the non-diegetic begins and my first title credit appears.

I am happy with the final outcome of my two minute opening and I hope people agree with me when they see it.

Non Diegetic Sound Issues

I have taken the decision to mute my non diegetic sound during my interview scenes and any dialogue uses as my opening was becoming dominated with the thrilling music. I didn't want this to be the case so when it was brought to my attention by my teacher I quickly made these edits and editing the music all together so that it remained to flow.

Incorporating my credits into my film

I have selected a typewriter edit to get my credits on to the screen. The reason I have done this is to re-enforce my title of 'The Statement' because it is about telling a story which can be done upon a typewriter.

All my credits are the same font, same size, same colours and stay on the screen for a minimum of 4 seconds so my audience would be able to read them. I made these decisions due to the research I carried out on thriller films and they used the same similar things.

Edits to my credit titles

I have chosen to edit the following title:

5.  Music from Padraic on YouTube    to    5.  Music from Padraic


I have done this to make the appearence of my titles look more professional. I believed referring to YouTube in my opening titles looked unprofessional and if it was to be released, YouTube may of been unhappy as I did not ask their permission to use their name in my titles.

All filming completed

All my filming got completed on Thursday (3th February) and now the script is not visible within any scene in my opening sequence.

I am very grateful for my actors for helping me re-film my interview sequences. They were both very professional which helps my filming get finished quicker and the end result be better.


I am happy with the result of my filming. Each section of filming I did, my actors knew exactly what they would be doing and how they should act due to my storyboard, shooting scripts and narrative structure. Each of my actors knew what was involved in their character which made them easier to act and gave me a better result.

Mixing Non-Diegetic sound with Diegetic sound

When I have used dialogue throughout my opening, I have left the non-diegetic sound running quietly in the background to leave it to build the tension. At the end of my two minutes is the only time I have lowered the diegetic sound for the non-diegetic sound to take over. I have chosen to do this to add suspense to the car pulling away as the audience has seen that the driver gets kidnapped but they do not know why or how, this adds to the tension I want to enforce with the music.

On Final Cut, I have lowered the diegetic sound, and enhanced the non diegetic sound to leave the two minutes opening on a high suspense level. This is a screen print of how I have done it.

Adding titles and editing sound

I have now added my non-diegetic sound to my opening sequence with the clicks of filming I have done. I am now working on making the sound louder and quieter at the right times as you can see on the screen print above.

I am also now adding the titles I pre-arranged on top of my filming so they appear over the top of the filming. This applies to every title apart from my first one which is on top of a black background as it is at the very beginning. This is to prevent my opening beginning too quickly and the audience missing the first few seconds.

More filming

 I am taking out a camera on Thursday the 3rd of Febuary to re-film my interview scenes because the script is too obvious and looks very unprofessional.
When I noticed this error, I thought it would go past un recongised and I would be able to make it look like a piece of the set however it is clear Katie is reading from it and it affects my whole mise-en-scene.

I have also taken out an over the shoulder shot of Katie from within the car because you could see me filming in the background (reer view mirror). Instead of re filming this, I have realised I do not need this shot and I have taken it out and my opening still flows nicely.