editting!

After we had finished filming our film, we then had to edit using the program Pinicle, we eddited the titles, scenes, transitions, music and added the institutions to our two minute film opening using our schools edditing laptops The titles were the first things added to the film production and they were eddited and saved as images by using adobe photoshop we used a sharp white font with a black background to add to the horror genre and erriness of the thriller film. we used the same font to narate the production of the film "JPO productions", the actors and the title of the film "I spy, Eye spy" in seerate slides, so they appeared quicky and one after another. during the scene where our titles appeard vocal music was used created by singing "I spy with my little eye" this added authenticity because the exact relativness that it  had the film and the film title. also we timed it so the singing began when the title slides appeard and ended when they finished and the slides changhed to appropriate lyric which also added to the authenticity. If we had more time we would of used different fonts for some of the titles and animated them so they would of moved on and off the screen, unfortunatley we didnt.
We used different fonts for the names of the actors etc. but still kept it tied with the horror genre by repeating the black background and white writing, and also although different a sharp gothic font.


We were clever enough to film most of the scenes in a corosponding order, yet cutting and edditing was still crucial to enesure the film run smoothly. we eddited the film so it appeard 'cutty' and 'snappy' with scenes changing quicky to make it appear repettitive and as if what 'the stalkers' doing happened often. transitions were eddited and close ups were made onto photographs of the victime which were then faded in and out to appear as if the stalker looked at the same photo day in day out. these scenes were effective because although possibly not seen often in horror productions added majourly to the authenticity. to add to the repetition of the scenes, snipets of the same slide were repeated more than once to add tension and suspence for the audience to imagine what will happen next, the snipet repeatated included a light flickering this created the idea of drawn out periods of time with the 'stalker' doing the same things daily. Another part of our edditing was shortening and therefore speeding up and also cropping scenes which included 'shakey' camera, or bad quality filming. Which was also curicial.

The institution we used was New Line Cinema which we had to film in order to include it in our two minute film opening (copyright free!) this insured the authenticiy of the film because with it our film appeard like it was produced by a major production company.
As i've mentioned early the rest of the soundtrack to the film except for 'electricity' sounds at the begining of the sequence was taken from our animatic production as the music worked perfectly when timed with each transition the eeriness and overall on edge persona of the soundtrack worked well with fractions of the film being in near enough silence and tenser slides being 'full-on' noice. although we didnt use any scripts or talking parts in the sequence we thought this was relevant because the stalker nor the victim hadn't been identified within the first two minutes purposely to add suspence for when both characters are revealed later on in the film, we did use noices which the audience were entitled to guess the sound and then enviroment that the film would open in being the school dark room. we used the sounds of developer pouring, cutting sounds, and footsteps and machinary to add suspence to something the audience could only question.

The edditing process was one not to be taken lightly and took our group a long time to make the film even appear remotley authentic, and although if we had more time we would of changed bits and pieces overall the experience was a good one


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