Editing Blog: Music!!

     In class on Friday, my group and I continued to edit. Our main focus was getting the titles finished and adding the music. Adding the titles was not hard, it just took a while because of one of my group members incompetence. I had to explain how to add the titles even though we both had the same amount of experience using iMovie. After that we began adding music. Elijah took the lead on this. He converted the sound so that we could add it to our movie. He added all of the sound. He also cut it to match the scenes. This was very helpful and helped make lots of progress on our project.

      Once we finished with the music and titles we decided to all watch our final product and make critiques. The major issue we observed was the drastic changes in music. The movie goes from suspenseful music to a cheery song that the kidnappers play when they are on their way to kidnap the lead character. We decided to take out the scene where the kidnappers turn on the radio, and instead just keep suspenseful music. There is another change in sound when the lead puts his ear buds in and music begins to play. I think that our song choice was poor and we could find a song that goes better with the theme of the movie. Next time we are editing and someone else is using the computer, I will look for a better song. The other critique our group agreed was that the titles could be adjusted so they are more legible. We have designated that job to Zeke for the next time we edit because he has been the main person to work on the titles with me.  I have added a photo of the computer screen with the sound added so you can see what it looks like with the sound track.