Editing lesson 2

In last lesson we cut out the scenes which we thought we did not need to be in our clip. This meant that in this lesson that we could spend time on some harder editing which would focus more on the appearance of the clip rather than the sequencing. We wanted to change the colour of the clip to something different as the colours that were used did not give the clip the correct conventions of a thriller. We tried 'sepia' and enhancing the colours that we already had but we finally decided on using a black and white theme, we chose this design because of the effect that it gave. It made the film seem a lot more tense and people would not know what to expect from the film when watching it for the first time. The black and white theme makes the film look a lot more defined as you can see the shadows better within the film which creates more tension.

Next we wanted to edit the way that all the clips were put together e.g. the way they transition. We wanted to make sure that the consumers felt tense so we decided that we would mainly just used black straight cuts as this is a fast shot and simple but effective. We also wanted the clip to seem mysterious so some slower transitions were put in such as 'fade'

Throughout the clip when there is dialogue there is some buzzing noises which is from natural sources. Unfortunately for the preliminary task we did not have enough time to get rid of the noise and record over the clip. This would have been very complicated also and we managed to slightly reduce the buzzing noise in some clips as we muted the clips with no dialogue in. Our film is nearly finished as we have done the audio and appearance today but we will decide next lesson as to whether or not we want to put a track over the top of the clip for more tension.