Post Production - Main Task

The editing process went mostly smoothly, the only thing that seemed to cause the most struggle was the sound. Firstly, we had no sound in most of our original shot and so we had to take some of the 'white noise' from one of the shots that actually had sound and copy this to the remainder of the shots. Luckily the fall out boy diegetic music which we later overlaid made this seem rather smooth and not jarring, which we were worried about. With the music we adjusted the sound levels to make sure that when the camera was nearer the computer that the music would be louder, and when it was further away, like in the close-ups of the objects, that it was quieter - as to replicate the way the sound would be if you were in the room with the character. However, what caused many problems was getting the audio of typing in sync with the typing on the computer screen, the titles, and on the keyboard. To get round this problem and to make sure that it was clear, we recorded the sound of the typing after the shooting day and added this in with the visuals. After quite the struggle with matching up each sound clip to the visuals, it did however pay off in the end, some of the typing shot even had to have each, individual typing noise added in to each letter that appeared on screen, this was quite frustrating but it did pay off in the end.

Once all the sound levels were appropriate we wanted to make sure that the title shot lasted long enough, in particular we wanted to make sure that the main title differentiated from the rest, to resolve this we made the main title larger and stay on screen longer. We also made the titles in a typewriter typeface in order to reinforce the idea of our protagonist tying out a letter and hence give a little away about the story, as well as fitting in with it. The length of each shot also caused some struggles as we didn't want it to drag out each clip, but at the same time we did not want it to be too short and seem jarring, we also needed to fit the 2 minute boundary. Despite his, in the end I think we came to the right conclusion of having shots long enough for the meaning to come across successfully.