Editing our Thriller Title Sequence - Final Tweaking

Our post production questionnaire gave us some important things to change, mostly small details, yet they were incredibly important. For example the actors name was spelt wrong, and in the very last shot a significant error is visible; as the antagonist closers the 'door' of the cab it, the actor (who is meant to be at the back of the bus) is standing in the shot; in front of the bus! I was easily able to fix this by cropping the shot as show below:

1 Before cropping (actor in frame by accident):              2 During cropping:

3 After cropping:

Moreover, I had cropped a shot midway throughout the sequence to get rid of another error (the antagonist was standing in shot when he wasn't meant to be). However this caused there to be a empty space on the left as I has dragged the whole shot over to the right, i didn't make the crop quite so dramatic so there is no longer an empty space on the left of the shot.

A title that we did not use is shown below, the night before we timed we asked Steve (the man who kindly allowed us to film at the Depot) if it was possible to print a title on one of the destination blinds, he was happy to help so we sent him the following:

We filmed this shot however we felt it did not fit in to the title sequence. The place (in the timeline) that it needed to go would force us to deviate from the traditional title order (shown in one of the previous posts) as the name of the director must come towards the end and this shot would not fit in if placed toward the end of the title sequence:

Furthermore, it was pointed that numerous shots needed to be brightened using the editing software as they were difficult to see due to the poor lighting in a shot. For example - the long show of Steve (antagonist) holding the bag over the protagonist:

Unfortunately, some shots (such as the one above) were not possible salvage simply because it was not lit well as you can see from the poor lighting. However other shots could be improved by using lighting effect tools such as these:

Finally, there was something I noticed in the sequence that may confuse the audience and go against the 180 degree rule. When the audience see two shots of the antagonist's feet walking from 2 angles, they are shot from directly opposite sides. So the first match on action shot is the man walking from right to left of the frame, then the second is the man walking left to right. This is very confusing. Therefore I deleted the second match on action shot so the man is walking from right to left into the next long shot. These pictures illustrate this:

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2.  Deleted shot was here, but now there is continuity so the man walks from right to left in both/all shots

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I also rendered our whole title sequence so frame is improved, to when all frames are played one after the other, it creates a far more fluid video: