Post Production main Task

I learned how to chose specific shots and what works well as a shot (for example the shot were James was jumping over the camera) and what doesn't work so well (for example the shots from behind filming James 'jump').
The edeting progress was very interesting and I learnt how to properly use final cut server, how to do fade ins, how to find the right moment to cut from one shot to another (for example when we were cutting the paper shots, how to cut from a wider shot of the paper to a closer shot of it and there we had to find the right moment, when the paper looked similar in the wide shot to the paper in the close up). I also learnt how to put titles in it and how to let them fade in, and in which order they need to be. We developed our own style with this sequence, by having everything chilled, calm and peaceful at the beginning by showing the blue sky and the paper slowly sailing in the wind and then suddently as a big contrast, totally unexpected the jump.
We tried to enforce this by having long shots at the beginning of the paper and by not showing, where it was coming from and how high the place was where James was throwing it.
The mood we were trying to create was first relaxed and a bit confused, because the audience does not know where the paper was coming from and what is going on an then a complete shock, when James jumps.
We were using first very peaceful calm sound with birds singing in the background, then a choir singing and building up tension and then silence, directly before the jump, to enjoy that moment of shock. Most of the sounds we used was non diegtic sound (like the choir) but the birds, though they were added after the shoot were supposed to be diegetic sound and were supposed to create a calm, safe mood for the sequence.
We used the choir music to still have it peaceful, but to give the audience the feeling that nothing good was about to come, the classic choir music worked well, because the whole scene was very simple but strong (without dialogue, but with a meaning behind it) and the music reflected that very well.
When we choose our titles, we decided to put the distributor and our production company at the beginning up first, because we wanted to end the sequence with a dramatic black scene with the title of our film on it and we wanted that to be the final image.
We made the sequence appealing to the audience by making the sequence a bit mysterious and end it with a shock so that you don't really know what is going to come next.