After running the play-head through the log a couple of hundreds times more, I needed to find a solution for our group. Right so we have action scene here, I am not going to slap some cheap text over the top to show the credits as the action plays out. Oh no. What I suggested to the group is at the beginning of the sequence if we just have black and over this we have the screaming and the shouting from the actors leading up to the bit the character Dave (the nerdy Indian dude) gets shot. Not only establishing what the hell is going on but now throwing the audience straight away into the action, I thought it just didn't feel right. Right but what about our title/credits. So the titles would come on the screen on the black back ground, this will make it easier to place the credits. And our final title would still be at the end when the door style. The kind of text style I would want for this would be from the TV show justified. Rubbish show aside, the titles have this cool jittery movement effect to them, with the font for individual text characters changing.
We began copying and pasting clips that we thought would work into place. We did this in a new sequence called the rough cut. We came across a continuity problem with our actor Zell, who takes off her mask with her left hand and in another clip we were trying to chop together she used her right hand to take of her mask, rendering the clip worthless. Substituting one of the clips for the other. We had to do a lot of this through the editing process rendering a lot of our clips worthless.
Seeing this issue I had to come up with another solution for the problem. Initially we wanted our idea to have that snatch text effect for the credits but I thought why not have narration over that. This would give our sequence length but as well introduce the characters. After discussing this with the group we all thought it was cool but we would only add it if we had the time. I was okay with that. So it was time to get started.
