Editing 1

On Monday lesson we continued the process of filming which included editing the rest of our footage. Due to Charley not being here, we decided that all of us would contribute to the session, as we felt that our blog posts were essentially up to date, the fundamental focus being to finish our editing. Firstly we played back our footage, as well as rewinding it afterwards to ensure that transitions were smooth and flowing to display continuity editing. Once we had looked over footage we had realised that our main issues where rooted in the primary scene due to poor lighting, as well as  the absence of smooth footage . This is because we frequently deducted the footage, without taking into account the film as a whole rather than an individual frame. What we must do is experiment with slide transitions, alongside the completion of the footage, which when done can be perfected through touch ups.  Next we looked at the primary scene in terms of footage deduction, where we started off with the teddy bear and realised that we had too many frames, taken up by this prop (30 seconds as an estimation). To ensure we captured the essence of the film (in terms of the teddy bear frames), we looked at two which were filmed under different lighting- one was bathed in a blurry red glow whereas the other had the same blurry quality but was more darker in contrast. We decided that we would keep the first frame as we felt it would invoke more fear as well as providing a contrast towards the rest of the footage in this scene - due to the burst of colour in comparison to the darker frames. Next we went back to the dream sequence where we cut several frames,  mainly those which didn't look right in our piece. This included several facial expressions which had been filmed unconvincingly (which may have been a result of the numerous distractions we faced) part of the extreme closeup on Ana's face looking frightened as it was taking up to much footage and finally our end footage, where Ana and Zoe are in synchronized movement (we cut off the very last bit as instead of ending with their heads raised high, their heads are jolted to the side to demonstrate that they are just puppets). We then transferred over to the singular frame where the canvas displays the ominous words' its coming' and decided to place it at the beginning, to immediately show the audience the genre (fantasy/horror).  Our footage is now at 2 minute and roughly 34 seconds which means that we still need to cut out footage , as we need to put in credits as well as our title (courtesy of working title films). As we had basically finished all of our footage we decided to look at editing effects, transitions and titles quickly to give us a rough idea of what we wanted to put in. For effects we looked at several including: doors, card flip, page curl, shear and smear where we decided that the most proficient and professional was shear , which we accessed from new blue motion blend (adobe premiere software). The reason we thought shear was the others we felt although cool aesthetically, wouldn't actually appear so in our piece. We then looked at transitions and effects (colour) to which we thought weren't suited to our film, although I did like the colour use of the line drawing but the others did not think the same. Finally we looked at titles and picked out the best ones and found that we liked music video text, night vision and blue notes credits. This could be accompanied by a ticking clock to represent the passing of time, a key film within our film.