Accont of our editing

The first time we went to the editing suite we were reminded how to check in and out of our thriller. After this we sorted our shots into different bins - rush and log bins. The log bins were for the shots that we thought were effective and that we would use and the rushes were those which we didn't think we would use. We didn’t want to delete any shots because we thought they might come in use when we are editing our thriller. Most of our shots looked dark and eerie because we thought they were the ones that were most convincing to use in a thriller.

Once we'd sorted out our shots, using our story board, we got the basic story line in terms of shots together.  We began by using a tracking shot as we watched the victim running up the stairs. We then cut back to the same place but with a man who is walking the same way. We then did a close up of the knife in his hand so that the audience knew that this man was a villin. We continued this, and followed her running through a courtyard, again being followed by this man. After we had the skeleton outline of our thriller, we went back over it creating quick cuts and creating tension.

We used a variety of techniques to make our thriller stand out. For instance, we had the problem that the audience may not connect with our victim as you mostly see the back of her as she is running away. Therefore, we had a clip where we used slow motion, of her turning her head around and allowing the audience to see her face as well as her scared facial expression. To match this we also used slow motion on our criminals shadow, almost as if he is shadowing her movements. This also emphases that you never see his face throughout, giving him a mysterious element about him.

Once we had our thriller perfectly cut and synchronized we decided to add some special effects to it such as emphasized sound. For instance, we have added the stabbing sound at the end as the victim gets murdered, and at the beginning as she is running though the corridor you can't hear anything other than her footsteps as well as the artificial dripping noise we added, creating the illusion that she is all alone.

Leading on from the sounds we decided that we needed back ground music. The music we would use would have to create lots of tension. To create the music we took two songs that final cut server provided and cut them and elongated some parts to create our own sound track. It worked very well and i think it goes well with our thriller.

Finally we had to make the titles, to do this we looked at other title sequences in order to get the titles correct and then adapt them to our own. As our thriller is set in Victorian times we decided that we would have to make the titles look worn out and old fashioned. To do this we got some paper effects and transferred them to Photoshop, after doing this we used the burn tool to make it look as if the paper had been set on fire. We then used an italic font and a blur tool, this meant that we could elongate certain parts of the letters, making our style more unique. We then went onto 'After effects' and put the two together. To finalize it we created movements which the words would follow, making the paper slowly burn holes it in whilst turning. We then saved it and pasted the final product into our thriller.