Editing my 2 Minute opening

There was a problem with actually filming my footage as i had had a problem finding a location after my previous location was no longer accessible so I took the idea of multi set filming and filmed half and half, half being were i live and the other half in a board room in a local primary school. Please note that I had run out of options by this point as I had all my filming set for 2 days after my proffered location was no longer available to use so I took what i could use and tried to make it ideal.  but the actual setting of the hostage room was a form of old abandoned school room so the setting is sort of correct to my opening.

  Anyhow I managed to get the footage I needed and got them uploaded on to the Apple Mac I would be using to edit my footage.  

Only around 1 minute 20 seconds of my opening is actual footage I shot the rest is all institutional information and effects to give it a more professional affect on the audience.

 My institutional information contains a prologue to give the audience an idea of how the situation came about and this taken up 30 seconds of my institutional info,

 some films Like Black Hawk Down "which I researched earlier" do the exact same and use a prologue to give the audience the background of the story and in that case lasts the full two minute opening. Mine does not use the full two minutes to create a prologue/ background image for the audience to get a better understanding of the film about to be shown. some films use this as attraction for audiences and give away small scenes that make the audience want to see more

   My sound track for my opening was hard as most films have fully made songs that span there whole opening what maintain a dramatic impact and follow the pace of the scene.  so I had to create a song of different parts of samples of music to suit and improve the scene e.g. for the end shot of the sniper to the film title  i had a loud base to give impact. also sound effects like the mobile phone were also put in give the object "the phone" importance to the film so sound plays a key part to what is happening in the film and I used as much as I could to the best of my ability.