Welcome back! Today, I will be showing you our film during the editing phase!
Now that we have filmed, it's time to plug the camera into the Mac and import all of our footage into Final Cut Pro, the editing software we utilise.
The first stage was to edit the kitchen scene, in which contained a shot/reverse shot. We simply reviewed the clips in the libary and used CTRL+I and CTRL+O to mark where we want the clip to start and end, we then proceeded to add this to the timeline. We did this for each shot until the end of the kitchen scene. Then, we needed a light but erie soundtrack, in which can be found here.
To allow our film opening the dark and erie feel, we had to set the film during night time, however, the camera we recorded with does not like dark places, because of grain. Therefore, we filmed the kitchen scene and establishing shot in broad daylight and used the 'Day Into Night' filter on the clips to give a blue/black tint towards the clip. As you can see, it does give a 'night time' feel to the clip!
To allow a fludity between the kitchen scene and the bedroom scene, we faded to black for around 1 second. Within this fade, we added our next soundtrack in which can be found here. This acted as a sound bridge for our bedroom scene.
This next part to the editing was vitally important to the film, as creating tension through the soundtrack and the accuracy of editing was a big part of how we wanted to build tension. We used crescendo sound in which allowed us to slowly reveal the other bedroom.
The accuracy of editing really helped in terms of our match-on-actions for the light and door for the build up of tension as it elongated the time for Ian (Marc) to enter the room, in which, with the build up of the sound effect and the original soundtrack, built the tension fantastically. The reveal of Jane (Sara) in the bed turning over relieved tension towards the audience until Bonnie (also Sara) walks into the room. We used a 'piano hit' sound in which was around +12Db in which made the sound incredibly loud to jump the audience. This proceeded with a straight cut to black for the next scene.
Next time: Ident Constuctions! See you then!
