Construction: Editing

In class we learnt about the importance of editing, and how it has been used the affect cinema and media alike. Editing utilises the different camera shots and angles, and offers us a variety of different perspectives that we wouldn't be able to experience usually in everyday life.  From our lesson, we were able to appreciate how well it is applied in film. In order to do good job with this aspect of our opening, we realised we needed to make sure the editing was woven in seamlessly and looked invisible to the audience. 

To get ourselves started, we needed to sift through the clips and footage collected from filming. We did this to be able to collect the best quality clips, as well as finding the best matching scenes so that our opening flowed.

We began the editing with the aim of cutting down our footage to a maximum of two minutes. Using an editing software called Premier Pro, Matthew arranged the sequences to make an ordered set of shots for our opening in our film. This was an important process, because the way we edited could affect the whole tone of the opening.

Once we assembled the scenes in the correct order, we reviewed the length we wanted for each one. This was done in order to reflect the atmosphere in the scene and the general mood. The earlier scenes in our opening were generally the longer ones, due to the little action that occurred. As a result we were able to use the scenes to showcase various camera angles and shots.   

All the diegetic sound we used was imported straight from our footage. The only non-diegetic sound that was implemented, was the our own self made foley sound. We were influenced to use this technique after having learnt the way foley artists add realism to film sequences.

Matthew is shown here arranging the transitions of our clips, and making sure that scenes are linked together and concise. He decided to do some of this transitioning at home on his computer, as it offered him more suitable choices on which styles followed the horror conventions best.