Category: Production

To conclude my film opening, I had to edit the clips and make it presentable as my film opening. I edited all of my film opening in Premiere Pro cc 2018.

EDITING:

The first step was to assemble my clips and assort them.

Then I assembled and clipped all of the clips together and created and created a sequence. The next step was to add the colour and correct the colours.

I increased the saturation for the first part of the sequence and decreased it for the end of the sequence and increased the fade. This all captured and enhanced the mood at the two stages, one where no suspects anything and the one where the twist is shown.

The next step was to add titles, and I used Bernard MT condensed as the font, and I kept the titles in the center as to match the way I cropped the screen and made it a square. I tried to make everything symmetrical as it feels pleasing to the eyes.

The next step was audio, and for that I used Killing Me Softly with Her Song – Perry Como. The song went well with the video and I made it go low at certain points to emphasize on the video rather than the song.

Then I rendered (“rendering” usually refers to the actions which convert source material into final pictures or footage) the whole sequence and exported it.

My film opening was done finally.

This post is made for the purpose to show how I did the shooting, where I did the shooting, and what I did exactly.

My shoot could be done at any time of the day since time was not relevant to my story, so we decided to shoot at night time, when my actor was available.

The first location

The second location

The second part of the film was shot in a bedroom since the story demands it. I chose this because the lighting shifts from our first location to the second.

Now for the shooting part of the video: Shooting

I shot all of my video on Pentax-xs without any tripod because I wanted my film to be raw and shaky.

Since props were an important part of the film opening, I used acrylic paints and makeup to show the blood and enhance whatever effect I wanted the model to have.

We finished the whole shoot in under 4-5 hours, and the last step to complete my film was editing.