Soundtrack Enquiry / Final Cut Post-production

We were informed by our teacher that we weren't allowed to use pre-rendered soundtracks by other artists. This was announced by one of the media examiners who stated that our soundtrack had to consist creative content made by ourselves if our final cut is to be accepted. This means we've had to delete our song by Offspring.

Our current task now is to create a new soundtrack from Garage Band and we've decided to include some idea's from the music in our animatic storyboard. We also received some feedback from our teacher who suggested that we make some cuts in between the credits so we could work on more continuity editing. This would also visually make the opening more interesting to look out when we have a variety of shots placed together.

To do this, we decided to find to go back and trim some of the shots of Ollie sleeping on the desk. The editors decided that we should fit these clips in between the credit titles and making sure that they were in chronological order.

As well as that, we found out that the ideal duration for the opening sequence should be 2 minutes. Because our current rough cut is 3 minutes, it was recommended to us that we trim a few clips. We thought that this should apply to the credit titles as they tend to linger for at least half of the screen time.

Soundtrack Progress

Ollie has assigned himself to work on the soundtrack. For the tunes, he's included a variety of calm acoustic guitars a long with some shaker and tambourine beats. He's decided to try experiment with a more lighter and innocent tone with opening song but still trying to keep that upbeat comedy theme.

Video Editing Progress

We've cropped our rough cut footage from 3 minutes to 2 minutes 20 seconds. Even though we're 20 seconds over the ideal time (2 minutes maximum). There was absolutely nothing we could do to improve the pacing if we decided to trim more shots.