I’ve felt things to be pretty awkward this week. It’s
the final week before final exports are due so stress level s are high in the
air! I have found out that Gery is unhappy with the grade so has taken it upon
herself to re-grade the entire film at the last minute. Aisling isn’t sure what
the problem with our grade was. We did need to finalise it but I was just
waiting for Aisling’s call to get straight onto that.
I was more surprised to find that she has graded over
our version instead of starting a fresh one which I’m annoyed about because I
needed that grade for work reference and screen grabs. We have looked through
the saved vault but it only holds a few days’ worth of material and
unfortunately my last input is not recoverable.
On the plus side I have been given one last stint of
editorial input to the project, which I’m happy about because it went quite
well. I had told them a while ago that I have an idea for the film’s title
sequence. There is a shot at the start of the film in which the central couple
sign a lease in an estate agent’s. The shot is a close up of the page, which I
thought made it a nice canvass for titles. Gery has already done the film title
so I asked if I could have a go with a pre title of ‘Coláiste Dhúlaigh/Univestiy
of Wolverhampton Presents’. They liked the idea and I’ve just finshed it and I
think that thankfully works really well. I say thankfully because it was very
hard work. The idea was to have the above title scroll across the page in time with
the signatures. They only issue is that Final Cut doesn’t have an effects
function for this so I had to improvise. I made a separate text box for each
letter (24 in total) and then cut them together precisely so that they when
they played in the time line they perfectly synchronized with the signatures on
the page. It took me hours and it has screen time of about 10 seconds. Now I
know how animators feel…
Hyper link:
Animated opening credits in synch with signatures on page (begins at
00-00-12)
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