Editing.

On Wednesday the 25th of February we started to edit our piece. I did most of the editing and started by cropping and cutting all the scenes into a perfect manner. This took us quiet a while as we had 5 minutes of footage and we needed to cut it down to 2 minutes, after a hour of so I managed to cut it down to 2 minutes and 26 seconds which was a huge achievement.
After this I changed the footage to black and white and this made it seem more like the piece of text that we all wanted. In the next lesson I added titles to the piece, which proved to be incredibly difficult as I had to time them in a certain way and divide this time by the number of titles we needed. It took me a very long time but when it was finished I felt very proud of my achievement.
Our next problem was the changing of the colour of the rose petals and the letter box. We found out that in order to do this we would have to take every single frame and colour each flower petal and the letter box red by ourselves, this would take a huge amount of time and effort and would not look very professional at the end of it. After a long discussion with Hayley we decided that we should fade the colour instead of using black and white and have bright vibrant colours for the flashbacks as this would signify her being happy as she remembers them, however, we decided to put the final flashback so it would fade as William was going to war. This would show her going from being happy with him to her feeling sorrowful of him leaving her.
I then added the music we have chosen (Beethoven- moonlight sonata) and the copyright free plane sound that we found off the internet. The piece was finally coming together and starting to look very professional. The only thing we needed to do was to ask Eve to record the voice over. The reason we chose Eve was because she has a soft and gentle voice that reflected well upon Jenny.