11.1

Today we continued to work on collecting sounds, downloading the ones we've already found and putting them into the timeline. Marshall suggested that I change the beginning of our film; he felt that if we just rearranged the timeline to make the intro to the episode in the movie they watch in the film and just start off the actual film fading into a scene it would be a lot more interesting. It would also alter our film from the typical Tom and Jerry episode, which goes into the intro right from the beginning. We had some trouble with the effects because we only wanted a fade in, not a fade out. I said you could just delete the fade out part, but that shortened the clip and thus ended up changing the timing of the following clip. This meant the music we added would be a little bit off and we didn't want that; we thought it was perfect the way we had arranged it. In the end we decided just to keep both fade in and fade out because it didn't affect the overall viewing of our film, it probably even made the transition between clips smoother!

The sounds we added today were both Tom and Jerry's laughs, background music for when Jerry is running away and Tom uses the rope to catch him. I was really happy about editing that section. I played the clip, trying to find one part that would fit with the sound of Jerry running. It had to be light because Jerry's a mouse, a small creature, which would probably be pretty agile. He was also running fast, so it had to represent that. Once I found it, I dragged it down to the timeline. Without even having to move it into the right place, I had already got the timing between the music and the video perfect because when the music paused, that was when Jerry got caught by the rope and fell face flat on the floor. We also added in a clip of an old movie countdown that comes in right before the movie plays. We extended that sound to when Tom and Jerry go into the movie theatre and sit down, because I had this impression of olden days when they had movie reels and there would be that sound playing right before the movie started. I thought that would give a vintage feel to the film.

We still need to record some of the sound effects from our long list so we spent the last part of the lesson figuring out how we would go about making those sounds because some were quite odd.

"Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." - Forrest Gump