Next step was to add visual effects, correct the volume levels and add sound effects.
Visual effects were to be added from the premiere itself so it did not require much research however I wanted to add sound effects in a few scenes in the background e.g. in the one where Ali leaves his house for work, a bit of office sounds and traffic noise sounds seemed necessary too.
People like us was another film that I had watched lately. It revolved around family ties so I thought maybe I could get something from music used in that film. That and also Grey's Anatomy- the medial drama-was in my options because firstly, I'm obsessed with the show so I wanted to use something used in it, and secondly because the show has so much drama involved, so much emotions and feeling, everything is so versatile that my need for finding something soft and gloomy were quite high.
Visual effects were to be added from the premiere itself so it did not require much research however I wanted to add sound effects in a few scenes in the background e.g. in the one where Ali leaves his house for work, a bit of office sounds and traffic noise sounds seemed necessary too.
Above screen shots are of the websites that I used to download the sound effects.
After getting done with downloading the sound effects, I had to search for the background score to use behind scene one and for the last scene. I wanted a very soft, yet instense instrumental music. The one that could give it a more intense feeling, something that would compliment the emotions of the child. The first film that came to mind in reference to the child was 'In Pursuit of Success'.
I opened YouTube and listened to the score but it wasn't something that I wanted it was high pitched at some notes and depicted happiness. Oh, and I totally forgot, the title of the film itself suggests 'Happiness' so how could I get a gloomy background score!
I listend to Soundtrack of People like us and liked it somewhat. It had chunks that could be used in the film.
As for sounds from Grey's Anatomy the first option was of the link that opened and listened to. The instrumental music was simply AMAZING. With the music playing I could actually picture our entire first scene, the kid running and then secretly peeking from behind the wall. It all was making sense and Mahnoor too had to like it. For my sake, at least I made Mahnoor listen to the soundtrack and she really liked it too. She too thought that it would set in really well with the two scenes. The instrumental music, however, was name as 'MerDer Theme' and did not have any specific name to it, neither did it contain any links or name of the song of which the instrumental was. I searched a lot to find the name of the composer or to figure out which song it was but none seemed to give any results.
The last stage of editing of Final Cut was adding the title and an ident at the start of out video.
For the title, we had already produced in Photoshop a PSD file of how we wanted to appear so what we did now was save a JPEG image of each letter separately with layers of other letters closed except for the previous letter. We did so because we wanted an effect of someone writing on the blackboard, we obviously could not add hands through Photoshop so was the only thing we could do. Also it turned out really interested so Mahnoor and I were very well satisfied with what we had produced and how we had produced it.
As for the ident, we used the logo of our own production house Rolling Reels. Productions' created at the earlier stage of Course-work. However the sound effect we used was downloaded from YouTube, it was Prevalent studio's sound that we downloaded as MP3 from YouTube.
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