Editing Meeting #7

Editing our sequence we found was probably the hardest part of it all. Whilst editing we found that a few shots were way too long and that our scenes had to be cut down a huge amount. After editing, our sequence was 5 minutes long, this was absolutely no good so therefore we had to take away a scene to make it shorter. The scene we decided to cut out of our opening sequence was the daytime forest scene where the detectives investigate the missing girl and find her dead body.



The reason why we cut out the forest scene is because it was the least important part of our main story, and the only scene that would make sense not
putting into the opening. We also decided to speed some shots of the killer's house scene up, as we wanted that to be the fastest scene, using fast cuts into the action.

When editing we have had to move shots around god knows how many times just to make it look ten times better. We learnt how rearranging can really make a good impact while editing.

We used a cross fade, and a fade to black effect to show time has passed between certain shots so the audience don't get confused.

We also found a way to edit the lighting in certain areas that were too dark or too light, by using the colour balance wheel and adjusting it until it was just right and matched well.

We also had to mute certain shots because of unwanted background noises: such as wind, talking,breathing,dogs barking etc.

After our editing I think our opening sequence looks much different to what we thought the outcome would be. It was tough, but it really is amazing the difference
editing can make to a film.    

~Posted by Lauren