Cori Holloway

Here is the link for the final cut of our movie opening. We made a few changes to improve our opening. One significant change we made was taking out a repeated clip in the opening. We had a shot of Ryan picking a hat showing twice. Obviously, that was a problem, so we took one out. Another change we did is setting up the plot of the movie towards the end of the opening. In the first cut, the direction in which the movie was going was not clear. We added sirens at the end of the opening to not only create suspense, but to set up the plot in some way. We also took out some sound of our original clips. In the first cut, there was a clip where you could faintly hear me say "go" to Ryan. This was obviously mistakenly included, and so we took it out on the final cut.

Click here to see the first cut of our film opening.

This week, Ryan and I continued our work editing our film opening. We used the Adobe editing software to do this. Here are some pictures: We faced the difficulty of losing the videos since the last time we had edited. We had not realized that the computer was reading the videos from the flash drive. We fixed this by ultimately finding a way to put the files in the computer's drive. We are deciding to include simple fonts in the movie, that are bold but not extreme. We mostly cut from shot to shot because of the high-energy needed in the opening. Our audio will be an upbeat, intense song playing in the background. The player will be having flashbacks to successful moments in his basketball career as he plays. The song will overlay all of this. Today, we spent about half of an hour editing. We will most likely have to do additional filming in the future.