Second Part Of Editing

Looking over the new film footage that i had i was rather pleased with my types of shots and was feeling really positive to have finished my filming stage completely.

I began by cutting up my shots to the sections that i liked and knew would fit into my filming, but tried to do it in logical order so that i didn't get confused or muddled up. once i had my sequence in an order i began cutting specific clips in order to make the film flow and begin to take shape.

I had to pay extreme attention when completing my jump shot sequences of the flash backs in order for them to create the enigma as well as heighten the dramatic impact for the audience. this was difficult as the shots had to be timed short and made jumpy in order to create the horror like theme of a murder as well as create the enigma and establish the characters, which in the end was successfully done. I had decided to change my flash back sequences to different clips as i was going to keep the same one throughout the film which was the establish character of the killer, but i thought i would be able to create a better enigma through changing each sequence such as the first being the establishing shot of the character killer, the second being the establishing shot of the victim, the third being the sequence of both the characters aggressively arguing and the last sequence being the same as the first in order to create the emphasis around the killer, which further more created a bigger enigma for the audience successfully. i had to make sure each of these sequences were edited to look sepia in order to give a flash back effect, they also had to have the jump cut effect timed correctly in order to build up the enigma correctly as well as establish what is going on.

This is a screen shot taken from the fast cut sequence of both characters arguing. It strongly builds tension as well as portraying aggression through both characters expressions, this particular shot is an over the shoulder shot which shows the reaction from the other character. It is slightly low angled and therefore portrays the other character to be more dominant in the argument, also connotes the idea that the main character is the one that is vulnerable.

I then moved on to editing the rest of the film sequence which seemed allot more easy than trying to get the effect of the jump sequence. however i was pleased with the outcome. it took a while of cutting and re-arranging the clips before i was finally happy with my decision. i am especially happy with the way i managed to edit together the eye line match of the killer and the bench as i had expected the shot to be slightly off target, but it worked quite well. also, i was happy with the arguing sequence in the flash back effect as it was edited together so well considering it took so long to do, and at first i did have my doubts due to the actress's not being able to keep a serious face while doing it, but editing the sequence correctly helped me to overcome this problem and create the aggressive tone which i wanted. however there was one problem with this sequence, i hadn't kept to the 180 degree rule, there fore had to use the "mirror" effect in editing, but when filming i had not noticed this until it came to the editing process and was closely looking at if my film opening runs smoothly. I was also pleased with my ending sequence how i edited the extra close up shot on the eyes in sepia to "wash out" to the normal view of the eyes, giving the idea the the murder has been in the same position before in the past, and then how i cut the close up of the knife shot into the extra close up, long hold shot of the eyes every time the murder blinked in order to portray the idea to the audience that every time she closes her eyes she thinks of the knife, then cuts to black to heighten the suspense.

This is an example of the wash in effect from the sepia effect 

to normal in order to portray a time lapse.

Once i was happy with my film opening sequence i began to add in my film titles. this was very difficult as when i had attempted to make them before the shot of the title overlapped my other shots blocking them out and making them go completely black, however i some how over came this problem and managed to do them successfully. Another difficult part was thinking what to put in my titles as i wanted them spread out throughout my film opening, but i couldn't think what to write in each one, but i finally came up with a variety of titles such as the actress's, productions etc. and finally made it work smoothly in my film opening in a way it helped build up towards creating the enigma.

Overall i had successfully completed editing my film opening. personally, I'm very pleased with the way it has come together as my filming idea before was such a disaster when it came to filming and editing, and my new one actually looked more like a film opening and looked a good quality in comparison, therefore contrasting against the other one, i knew i was capable of doing a good standard of filming and i was pleased i didn't settle for the worst one. i had edited the clips so that it ran smoothly and also managed to use a variety of different camera shots while also creating the enigma. all i had to do now was the sound for my film.