Today we worked on completely finishing the visual timeline, adding to the list of sounds we needed to make/get and even started to look for some tunes/songs that we thought would go well with a particular section of our film.
There wasn't much to do with editing for the timeline, I only had to rearrange some clips and delete a few quick cuts to make everything flow better. I also added a new clip into the film, which included more pranks done by Jerry to Tom. I learned that it's always good to change the scale of the timeline from when you're watching it to when you need to edit something; you need to be able to see the whole timeline when watching, and you need to be able to get into the details when editing. After we went through the film a couple of times, pointing out to each other where we thought could be cut better (if there was), we went through it another time to pick out all the sound effects we needed to make. I had already deleted the soundtrack from the original clip so that we could be more original in our sound design, making it completely our own. Although this was the case I think it still helps that we're able to get inspiration from the cartoon and other cartoons and be able to imagine all the sounds, play them out in our heads so that we know exactly what we need to look for.
We've now got a complete sound list. We decided to go on Youtube to search up some of the effects to see if we could find some, and get a head start on collecting sounds. Marshall got really excited about one song he thought would really fit the opening scene with the peace treaty and where Tom and Jerry are walking to the movies. It's a cheerful scene so we wanted something upbeat but something that was appropriate and Marshall immediately thought of his grade 8 piano piece, which was a modern jazz piece and when we played that scene alongside the music it turned out to fit quite well. We all felt very happy that we had "made a big discovery"!
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