Editing

We started editing on the 23rd of April. At first me and Aya were to start the editing on the Macs, however, we decided that using Windows Media Maker was easier because we had already had experience using it during the Preliminary task. It would be time consuming to learn and get used to using the Macs.

It was very time consuming to even do half the clip as we had taken serveral shots of each shot to have the choice of which one would work well and create continuity. This was an advantage, however time consuming. We had to keep viewing the repeated shots to pick one out. This has made me beleive and appreciate the work put into the films which are much longer because it certainly would take alot of time to edit.

Aya had edited the kitchen scene herself, Serhan and Vedat were meant to edit it but after a fault in doing so she had to do it.
When we got together we viewed what had been edited, however i had realised that some shots should have been used. As a group we agreed and i edited in the parts which should have been kept in the film. This task was quite stressful because i had to watch the unedited version of the clip and decide with Vedat and Serhan which parts should have been used. I cut the films in sections deleting the unwanted parts, or the parts which already existed in the film. I then imported them to the final file and then watched it all over again to make sure there were no jump cuts, however there were still some jump cuts left which we couldn't improve.

The credit sequence was throughout the basement scene. It has a black background with a red font which seems as though it is dripping (like blood). I placed the credits between these jump cuts to make them less obvious, also we learned that the credits couldnt just be placed any where: in the shots where tension was trying to be created, placing a credit would disrupt the tension and would make it less effective.


The soundtrack starts after the footsteps coming down from the stairs. We wanted to keep the sharp "banging" of the heels because I wanted to keep that rhythmic sharp banging.