A New Idea

Throughout editing my post apocalyptic opening scene I started to ask for feedback from my teacher's, family and friends to spot anything that I could add onto my opening scene before it had to be finished. I did get many people asking me what was happening a lot of the time and they did admit they would not know that my opening scene is in the post apocalyptic environment. Therefore what I decided to do eventually was add a voiceover to explain the story and to help people understand what they were watching. I recorded the voiceover on my iPhone 5s and from watching my preliminary task recently I learned from my mistake that I should not record my voiceover too close to the person's mouth as it sounds too loud, you can hear the person breathe and you can hear them almost spit into the microphone. I asked one of my media teachers if they would be able to do my voice over for me as I knew that he would take this seriously, I asked him to try to sound very tired and as if he had not ate or drank for at least a week to get the effect I wanted, so he ended up pressing his throat a little to try to get a deep and dark voice. I gave him a short script consisting of him saying , "Day twenty-three, still can't find any food, or water, each day gets harder, but I know, we can make it through, this disaster", I asked him to take breaks throughout this so that it would make him sound like he had no energy or hope so that the audience would connect with my opening scene more and understand it better. Whilst editing after recording this I cut down the recording to where the pauses were and placed them on each cut before my credits so that it matched with my music and the edits.

Updated Sound- Forsaken

Whilst editing my filming I have changed the music for my opening scene for Forsaken, this is because I realised having the same music for 2/3 minutes made me lose concentration whilst watching it, therefore I started to think of where I needed new music and what music needed to be added and replaced.


At the start of the film I have kept my original song Vicky Chow-Morning Tale, I Nocturne, however later on I added on new suspenseful music that I found on YouTube.





I went on to read into his policies about using his music, " If you are NOT using the music in a commercial sense(monetizing, selling a product, a commercial, etc), the music is free, as long as you credit me and Subscribe to my YouTube Channel. Donation not required, but always appreciated :)", after reading this I added his name onto my film along with Vicky Chows.

I also have used this sound for my flashback moment to make it very obvious that we are going back in time. I have found the person's email address and sent them a message for permission to use the sound.

There is also another soundtrack that I have been interested in using for my post apocalyptic film which is Cold by Jorge Mendez, therefore I found his email and contacted him also to ask for permission.


I also decided I wanted to have a sound for my production company as many have very recognisable sounds and that is also what I wanted, therefore I found this sound which I could use for free without permission.

Use of Premiere Pro

I have used Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 throughout the whole of my year doing AS Media to edit my work such as my preliminary task, behind the scenes, video diaries and upcoming opening scene which will be up soon. I have used Premiere Pro as it is available for students such as myself at my sixth form to use for free in lesson time and study periods to edit my work as I do not have this software at home to use. What I like about Premiere Pro is how it is easy to use as it is pretty basic in my opinion, the transitions, effects and fonts it allows us to use are great for this lesson as the simple stuff will make a big difference to every bodies videos. I like how I can cut down my clips, add as many clips as I want, add text on top of my videos, add music, change the look of my videos such as being able to change the brightness of my videos and being able to change the sound by using the pen tool to add points to where I want to lower my sound or to even change the audio gain.