Process of re-editing Arlington Road

The opening scene of Arlington Road was cut up into sections, we had to put it in the sequence we think it goes in. We done this by viewing all of the scenes before we did any editing or putting them back together.

First, we put the two production companies at the start, following on by a long shot, blurred out scene where the boy is walking towards the camera. We also added the title Arlington Road in big, after the production companies because it was signifacnt. In addition, we had to also add the film credits such as: casts, producer, director etc. We did this by selecting an area of a scene, for example we added the name 'Nicole Shockstar' a cast in Arlington road, to the side of the boys extreme close up of his blue eyes.

To add the text, we click on the text box and edited the name, we the wire frame to give us a guide of were we can place the text, the text should be within the box so that when it is viewed in the cinema, it is cropped out. To move the text around, we just clicked on the text and placed it where we wanted. 

We also used a fade/dissolve transition for the text because it looks more realistic to a film opening rather than having the names pop in and out, which is dull and boring.

We all had a contribution to what scene goes where and when, after we have used the clip we re-named it 'USED' so then we knew we have used the clip, it narrows down what we haven't used which made it easier to identify what more we needed to do to finish the film opening. After this, we saved the clip to our video drive.