Voice over/subtitles

Today I needed to work out whether I wanted to use a voice over or enter subtitles for narration. I experimented with a voice over recording my voice and reading the poem. This proved very difficult as my voice sounded boring so I had to try and sound happy. The original plan was to get a child to read it but neither Amelia or Harry wanted to so I had to improvise. I should have thought of this earlier so I could think of something in case this happened. For now I had to find a solution. I asked my classmates if anyone could help me but everyone was too shy. I attempted to add subtitles but this confused the film a lot and feedback from my peers told me it was too complicated and you spent longer reading the subtitles than looking at the film. After experimenting with different styles of reading the poem I found if I read it with a smile this came across in my voice. After lots of trials it sounded better so I decided to use this. It was meant to sound as if I was reading for a child to fit in with the theme of my film and I hope this comes across. I could move the voice over around so it would fit in well with the way I arranged my clips.
I had to edit the sound of the clips so you could hear the voice over or fade the sounds in and out to match and work together.

In this lesson I also inserted my animations into the film. I put the castle and the spaceship animations where in the film they were relevant. When watching it through I am happy with the way it looks but wanted some differentiation between verses of the poem and film. I decided to fade in where some of the verses began to make it flow more.

Some of the film was a bit bright so I used a three way colour corrector to make the clips better exposed, after this I copied it and pasted the attributes to other similar clips which were also incorrectly exposed.