We used Final Cut Pro to put all our clips and video footage together with our music.
Final Cut not only allowed us to put both these pieces of media together but also allowed us to edit each piece of footage to make each shot as effective as possible.
For example, cutting out irrelevant parts of my recordings to make my film exactly how I wanted it. This was done using the blade tool.
We also relied heavily on editing to make our opening scene scary. We used the border called camcorder effect throughout many shots to create our homemade video camera idea more noticeable.
Also through editing, Final Cut allowed us to put in an transition called 'static' which created a broken camera effect, highlighting the change and disruption of the evil haunted girl on the camera footage. It created a huge distinction between the different personalities of our main character and had an element of shock when it happened.
Finally, we used the Black and White effect for the same reasons.
We used black and white effect to make some scenes more dark and gloomy. This was used when the girl was turning evil.
These were the most useful things we found about using the software. However, there were many more benefits such as the ease of fitting music on top of our footage and editing it to fit the visuals, as well as adding titles on the top of chosen shots.
Final Cut Pro provided a range of different and unique fonts to choose from, in which we could simply write our titles with and drag them around our shot into the exact position we wanted. We were also able to pick the colour, as well as many other effects in which we used 'fade'? to introduce our titles onto the shot. We could pick the times we wanted to show our titles and when we wanted them to disappear.
I found Final Cut Pro was a great software which allowed access to a wide range of video tools making our movie look more professional.
