The First Draft
The first draft of our film opening was the foundation for what changes came ahead, so it had to be near perfect.
I chose to edit on Wondershare Filmora because I had already worked on it for our Preliminary task and had it installed.
Here is the entire timeline of the finished first draft:
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Working with 9 different layers was certainly difficult, because a lot of effects, fonts, and audio had to overlap.
Most of our shots were slowed down for either of two different reasons:
1, To make them appear more stable, which made the video smoother and made it visually appealing.
2, To increase their duration. For example, the production logo video Myiesha made for the start of the video felt too short and abrupt at the start.
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The music track used was that Maroosh picked out:
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This was our voiceover done by Myiesha's friend Ibrahim:
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Both of these had to be edited into the timeline differently. The volume of the music track had to be reduced and the voiceover had to be increased so that it is easy to comprehend. The music was mainly there to set the tone, and I faded it in and out. The voiceover was slightly rushed, especially when it came to the 4 urdu words, so I split up all 4 of them and added space in the timeline as shown below.
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I used a camera flash sound effect audio when each headline appeared which Myiesha suggested:
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I then synched each headline to the sound, and since the headlines had to overlap, I put them in different layers and resized them.
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Simply having the headlines pop up felt a bit abrupt, because it wasn't giving the audience enough context, therefore I thought it would be a nice idea to pan and zoom on one or two headlines. I edited them to appear from two different directions and have different sizes so it doesn't look repetitive.
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The entire video had cinematic bars, which made the ration of the video 21:9, which is ideal to have it displayed on cinema screens.
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I added the Purple Love effect to give the scene with the journalist a contrasting colour to that of the flashback scene. This set a particularly modern look and set apart the timelines. Additionally, I added a fade in to the first shot of the journalist typing, where I also added a typing sound effect from YouTube I picked out and synched to the typing by slowing it down. This was also faded in and out.
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This is what the raw footage looked like:
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Here is what it looked like after editing:
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In the flashback scene, I added 3 different visual effects which were Vignette Radius, Sunrise, and Film 6 by FIlmora. These gave the shots a more orange tone and added a black vignette on the sides, which made the shots pop more and give the impression that a different era is being portrayed.
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Here is what the raw footage looked like:
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Here is what it looked like after editing:
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I used the pan and zoom feature in Filmora to slightly zoom into this particular shot. Doing this in post-production ensured that it was smooth, which further added a cinematic look to the shot.
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I knew I wanted to use a cursive font for the titles, and after exploring a bit, I chose the font LeckerliOne in a white colour and added black borders to have it pop out and be easy to read.
The name titles were slightly smaller than the main title:
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The First Draft
A work in progress, but at least its something:
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