Thursday 31st January 2013

Today we continued to edit the title sequence, we needed to put the titles in and further cut up the title sequence. We have nearly finished the title sequence, it could do with a little more editing to make it look smoother, the green screen is also slightly distorted and can be seen reflecting off of the clothes.

Tuesday 29th January 2013

During todays lesson, I placed the music in to the title sequence and continued to edit it. The editing is quite difficult and I am having trouble with the green screen editing. I will continue to edit the title sequence tomorrow, and hopefully have it finished in time for the screening on Thursday.

Thursday 24th January 2013

Today Elle continued to edit the title sequence, whilst I chose the music to use. To do this, I asked a large group of people to listen to 3 tracks that I thought would work well with our title sequence, and tell me what they thought was best taking in to consideration the genre of our film, and an outline of what our title sequence was going to look like. Once I received feedback, I converted the track which the majority thought worked best with our title sequence, and put it on my desktop to be added in to the title sequence later. It will be one of the last things added on to our title sequence, as it doesn't require much editing other than cutting it down to an appropriate length to fit our title sequence.

Music for Title Sequence

From our audience feedback, this track was the one that most people said would fit our genre best, and would correlate with our title sequence the most. We played them 3 tracks, this one, a fast paced chase type music, and a happy music, which I thought could work well as we wanted to add in an aspect of comedy. This could have been achieved through using contrapuntal sound.

This is the music I chose for our title sequence. I chose this music because it has a very dark feel to it, which ties in to our title sequence, as our title sequence is only supposed to be 2 minutes long, we will need to cut a lot of the music out. I also think we should add in sound effects along with the music for dramatic moments during our title sequence.

Options for Music

We asked a large group of people to listen to these 3 tracks, and then choose which one they felt would be best for our title sequence based on the genre and outline of it.

I felt that this would be a good option for the music because it correlates well with the horror genre, and has a dark, eery feel to it, making the audience feel tense and anxious. This one came out as the majority vote, people felt that this was the best option for our title sequence.


This music also has a very eery feel to it, but is fast-paced. I thought this could be good for our title sequence because it would engage the audience, and again, make them feel anxious. The least amount of people chose this one, when asked why, they said they didn't feel that the pace matched our title sequence, as our sequence is slow-paced.
I thought this song would be good to use in our title sequence, especially due to the title and repeated line 'why can't we be friends'. This would be used as contrapuntal sound, and to add a comedic effect to our title sequence, as it's ironic due to the fact that zombies and humans clearly can't be friends. This came in as a close second from feedback received, a lot of people liked the idea of using contrapuntal sound to bring out the comedic aspect of the title sequence.

Green Screen Editing

After placing everything in Final Cut Pro, I will need to edit out the green screen and replace it with things like a laboratory environment. Neither me nor Elle knew how to do this, so I looked it up on Youtube and found this helpful video on how to edit out the green screen.

Audience Profile