Today in lesson Mrs Thrasher called us over as a group and showed us a few of her favorite scenes in a couple of gangster films (Snatch and others) and elaborated on what made them so effective. We took notes on what she was saying and compared them to our media film and added a few tiny edits to give a little bit more of a dramatic effect.
We did this by re-recording a few of the narrations and made them more abrupt so it adds more of an edgy effect towards Daniel's character.

This is the Ident we made for our film intro.
It was made using one of mine and Daniel's horror still images which we created earlier in the media course. The sound was created using garage band, we used low frequency cellos and violins to create a deep bass sound, and then a jumpy phaser sound we found to add a nice little outro effect, which related well to the image slowly fading to black.
The text 'Phantom productions' was made on final cut express, and fades in and then out during the Ident sequence.

Edit #4

Today we finished our product to a basic structured level.
All that needs to be done now is to meet up as a group again and review it and add any finishing touches that we feel will be effective.

A couple days ago we requested to our media teacher, Mrs Thrasher, to kindly bring into school a few British and American style gangster films which included narration. Also, a couple of other style of genres that also included effective narration, so we could analyse them and see what point of the scene made it most effective. This research helped us a lot when structuring our production.
A couple of the films we analysed were:

• Snatch
• Lock stock and two smoking barrels
• Goodfellas
• Rocknrolla
• Fight Club

Edit #3

Today was the 3rd day we have spent editing together, and it was by far the effective session so far!
The amount we got done was phenomenal and we are becoming so much happier with our production.
We are a few sessions away from completion and we are all itching to see the final copy.

Edit #2

Today we spent another approximate 5 hours of editing in Daniel's studio and we managed to get a lot of work done.

We were able to contrast between everyones idea and decide what decisions to make as a team.

At this moment in time we've done about a third the editing and we are very happy with what we have.