Title Sequence Completion

Job done, fully edited our Title Sequence is "finito"!
We decided to call the film "Canary" one because a central location is the Canary Wharf Building and two because we have an opening shot where builds fly in, also possibly symbolising the flight of our character and as he falls from the top will have to learn to "fly" gaining his family back and trying to regain happiness and love and such. It's abit of a play on words.

Sorry for the poor qaulity upload, for some reason the music crackles (which is due to the export not the original file).

Editing in Motion

We are well into the editing process after the progress made yesterday. After creating the soundtrack editing the video seemed alot smoother and easier, it seemed that it was so much more effective editing the Footage to fit the music than trying to create a piece of music to fit the images we had. Change of shot at a crash or using calmer shots for the more tranquil parts fo music, they fit in togther nicely. I am now well acquainted with Final Cut Pro and editing our footage seems a really pleasurable task.
Here is a screen shot taken whilst in the edited process:


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Title Soundtrack

So here it is. The soundtrack to the title sequence, i wanted to build abit of pace and the music gets abit louder and increases in pace until at the foot of our destination/opening scene. I tried to communicate my intentions best to my brother and after we worked abit on it am happy that it achieves the feel and sets the scene for our sequence.
When the violins come in with the piano i think the use of long held notes work well, i did'nt want something too dramatic or that is particulary happy or sad. Just general atmosphere building music with held tones over a soft piano part. It was inspired by the work of "Ludovido Einaudi" who did wrote the music to "This is England" Dir. Shane Meadows where there is often a piano playing with bleak violin tones.

Music Development

Now abit into the editing process we must create our original soundtrack. My brother will help me out with this as he has a knowledge of various programs and skills that will help us big time.
I have sat with him directing him really whilst we create our soundtrack, after explaining thoroughly what kind of mood and effect we want, how the music should build etc.We are using one or two different programs to piece it together. One being "Steinberg, Cubase VST/325" and "Propellerhead, Reason 4", both looking very complicated to me so thank god we have our "technical music dude" Alex Smith.

Here are a few screenchots of the programs in action:

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Hidden Appearances

Just like when Hitchcock appears in the Opening of "North by North West" we decided to slip Ross into a crowd scene. This is not really important to the sequence but still.

Here is Alfred Hitchcock appearing in the Saul Bass title sequence:

Here are the screenshots taken of our scene whilst being edited in Final Cut Pro:

(He's the one with a black coat, glasses and a white plastic bag)