Use of Applications!

LiveType

• We used LiveType to create all the titles for our opening sequence. I had never used LiveType before as unfortunately we ran out of time during our Prelim task and therefore did not get the chance to create and add titles. However, I helped to create the titles with other members of my group who had experience using LiveType allowing me to learn how to use it. But, I did still struggle using it as I don’t feel the programme is well set out and I was unaware of how many effects etc. you are able to add to your titles.

This is where we could see a preview of our title,

it allowed us to experiment with the

settings and see how well they worked.

This bar showed us how long the title would show for on our opening titles, so we

were able to change it to suit the flow of our

sequence.

LiveType provided us with a large

choice of styles to choose from.

Soundtrack

• We used the application Soundtrack to create both of our soundtracks to be used in our opening title sequence. It was a great application to use as it allowed us to create two separate soundtracks and then merge them together to then fit in with our opening sequence. I used it previously on our Prelim task so felt fairly comfortable with it. We spent a lot of time trying different sounds as there were so many to choose from and we wanted to create a well thought out soundtrack.

Soundtrack allowed us to individually alter all the sounds we

had chosen to put in our soundtrack which made it easier

for us to fit them all together in an appropriate way to suit our opening

sequence.

Soundtrack provided a visual display of all the elements of we were using.

This allowed us to play different elements for different amount of time. It was very easy to change elements to fit in better with our

sequence.

FinalCut

• FinalCut was the main editing software we used for our opening sequence. This is the application that I have the most experience with so therefore felt most comfortable using it. It was quite complicated to use at first but I now understand it well and was happy to use this application individually.

FinalCut had many effects to choose from, we were able to enhance our original material

by using them to make it much more effective

We were able to see how the effects would

like whilst experimenting them

which quickly allowed us to establish what

worked the best.

The timeline allowed us to adjust the length of our clips and also crop out certain bits. Also we were able to layer different

items, meaning we could export our soundtrack and that adjust on here to match it to the timing of the clips.