editing post

 My media group started editing our opening title sequence on Thursday the 20th of May. We got all of our shots that we took on the shoot day together in a folder and created the timeline of the scene (as all the shots were in order, since we filmed the scene with the first part first and the second part second) whilst choosing which shots we wanted to use.

After we had put them all in a sequence so that the opening scene ran properly from start to finish, we had to shorten the shots to make it run smoother. Since Neave was in charge of editing, she was in charge of the computer skills, but it was a very team involved process and we all contributed to each decision. There were many challenges during this process, most of them being quite easy to overcome, but we came across one challenge in particular that was quite tricky. We had accidentally crossed the 180-degree rule in the searching part of the scene, and this was really tricky. After a discussion about how to deal with the situation we decided the best way around it was to cut the end off of the scene before (so that it worked smoother into the next scene without her showing how she was moving into the next room). This meant that the scene after that had the mistake in it didn’t look as bad as we didn’t see how she moved into the room in the shot before.

 

We also took the editorial decision to cut the scene with the dead body in it. Despite the fact that I enjoyed playing that role in the scene, and that I liked having the blooded-up victim in the storyline I think, and the media group thinks that it runs smoother and looks better in general without it. It kind of slowed the scene down and to be honest my acting wasn’t really helping the opening title sequence at all.

 

My favourite part of the editing process was most definitely when we got to add the music to the opening scene. We looked on multiple different websites including freesound.org and epidemicsound.com, but we found a few really good thriller scene soundtracks and we voted our favourite. There was a slight problem with the soundtrack we picked, as it was a bit fast, but I was able to import it into my logic on my MacBook, and I used varispeed to slow it down without altering the pitch or anything else on the soundtrack. We then bounced it and put it alongside the opening title sequence. It really added something to the sequence. Finally, we just decided to cut out any of the talking in the background in the film audio, and then copy some background ambience across so that there was some ambience throughout the opening scene.