Editing the newspaper

Finally, the final stage of the newspaper was to choose which parts to incorporate and edit them  to make them fit in with the rest of the opening. We wanted it to look creative while still being able to see the words on the newspaper.

 We used the close-up panning down shot and the extreme close-up panning across to the right shot to show the audience the brief background to the storyline and also to show them the credits in a creative way. We could have used more creative shots such as the low angle, full shots however it was impossible to see the names and headline in these shots and therefore we would have had to include more shots that two. This would have made the credits run on for too long before the opening and the audience would have become disinterested. For this reason we stuck to only two shots.

We had to start off by stabilising the shots which we slightly shaky. We did this by selecting the smooth clip motion  option and this works by zooming the shot in slightly in order to remove any obvious shaking on the edges of the frame. 

After this, we sped up the shots using the speed changing option as they seemed too long and dragged on for extended periods of times. This also gave a more uneasy effect as the clips were panned slightly more jerkily and this gave a somewhat canted movement. We selected the 200% option on the speed timeline as we didn't want to make it too fast as it would have been too hard for the audience to read the names.

Finally, we changed the video effect to sepia. We had to do this to match the shots throughout the rest of the opening as discontinuity would have made it look odd and very unprofessional. We chose the video effect of 'sepia' as this gives the clips a more aged effect while not blurring or disfiguring any of the footage, like some of the visual effects such as 'aged film' which made the footage a little blurry. Although this fitted in with our time period we did not want to take away any of the high quality.

This final appearance of one shot of our newspaper after the visual editing.