Account of Editing

On the day of our filming, we chose to shoot each piece of footage multiple times. This proved useful to us when editing as we were able to discard the shots that weren’t up to our standards. We started out by watching each video we took a few times and then comparing them to one another. From this we discarded the shots that were inaccurate, the inaccuracies could have included: incorrect lighting, not in focus, wrong angles etc.…

For our group, it was easy for us to make our narrative make sense as we put the clips in the order we chose when making our story board, as we changed our story board around a few times to make sure it made the narrative could be followed. However, although we used our storyboard to help us when putting out footage in order, it had a minimum amount if help in editing as we needed to show that certain clips were in the past and so therefore we needed to use the correct editing to show this and allow the audience to understand the narrative. When showing the flashback scene, I think we succeeded in making the narrative make sense as we changed the footage to black and white and made it distorted, showing that it is not in the current tense. 

We were only allowed to use non copy right sounds and music, this proved difficult to us as the music we wanted for our thriller was founded on YouTube and not on a non-copy right sounds website. We then decided to email the owner of the piece of music asking for his permission to use his piece of music. We also tried to make our own sounds such as the stabbing sound, the laugh and the scraping sound. We managed to use our own laugh and a real scraping sound however, the stabbing sound sounded too unrealistic so we got this from a non-copy right music website. Additionally, we all our dialogue used for diegetic and filmed in real life on the day, this made it easy when editing as the dialogue always matched the events that were happening on the screen.
Furthermore, once we finished editing and got feedback from our audience, we decided to change a few things which included:


- Changing the pitch of the laugh, making it more fitting for our actor as the laugh was too low pitch


- We changed the music at the end of our title sequence as it was too fast and not as sinister as the rest of our opening sequence


- We changed the opacity on one of our effects, when in the flashback scene to make it subtler and less obvious that editing was used on that clip




- We changed the scream of one of our actors, as it accidentally got cut off, meaning it was not as smooth as we would have liked it to be.

When putting in our opening credits, it was quite difficult to decide where to place them throughout. Firstly, we tried to spread them evenly throughout the opening, however we saw that this did not work as it interrupted the flow of our film and so therefore it did not look right. Because of this, we decided to put the majority of the titles at the beginning of the film before any other footage played in order to put emphasis on the titles and to make sure the rest of our film flowed smoothly. We placed the title at the end of our opening sequence for emphasis and to show. Furthermore, we also chose for the font of our credits to be in bold and in the colour red, we chose bold in order for it to stand out and we chose the red as it is a stereotypical colour for thriller films as it represents blood and violence. We worked really well as a group and contributed the editing process equally. An example, of something i helped with was that i helped to find the music for the opening scene with the pan.

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