Editing- Construction

The first edits of our opening sequence

Last Thursday we started to edit our filming footage. We decided that we wanted to at least upload the footage onto the software and organised each individual shot and place them in the correct order, however we completed the target fairly quickly, meaning that we had extra time to edit. Therefore we managed to turn the footage into black and white as we all thought that this makes the extract more sinister and dark. We added 2 title sequences, the production and title feature and downloaded some classical , eery music which we found appropriate for our extract. In addition, the music chosen is fairly common in thriller movies and we thought that this genre of music would particularly be effective. Our first edits were successful and we managed our time well,however we are aware that a lot still needs to be done and removing background voices from the footage and sorting out the other ambient sounds is very time consuming. Another issue is that the duration of the footage is around 5 minutes and this clearly is too long for an opening sequence. Therefore we need to cut down the clips and decide which shots are relevant and which can be deleted to ensure that the extract has an appropriate duration. Furthermore we hope to continue making alterations later on this week.