ED NW-Group 1 Inscription Final Cut

• This is our final piece edited we fixed the problems with the sound and made some more adjustments to the piece including; extending sound bridges, dissolving images of letters and photos to create a more visual link and adding diegetic sound to the images of the knife cutting the photos.
• We also ended up cutting the end of the opening as we though it made it much more of an effective ending.

NW ED - Reflection on editing

• Since our last editing post we have come a long way in terms of sound for our opening sequence. All the sound has now been added, both diegetic and non diegetic.
• Some of the sounds include; rain, high pitched ringing, suspense building, piano notes, whispering, heavy breathing, scratching pen on paper, knife cuts to paper and the sound of the door slamming, amongst others.
• By using so many different sounds and having to layer them all, we did have difficulties when exporting the film as sometimes the sound cut out or came in at the wrong time. To overcome this we had to change the way we exported the film and split the audio and video so that the sound would work effectively.
• We also made some editing changes since we added the footage from our second shoot, this meant we could incorporate the track shot at the beginning and replace the canted angle shot that was originally not stable.
• We have also tried to increase the cutting rate towards the end of the sequence to create more tension as well as adding transitions of dissolve over some of the shots to create a visual link between them.

ED NW Inscription final cut

• This is our final cut it still needs some minor changes as we are having some technical difficulties with the sound, the problems may be easy to fix but have had these problems as soon as we had put lots of layered sound on.
• We are happy at where the moving image is and where are titles are placed and the font so the only changes and improvements we want to make are with sound.

ED NW group Reflection of shoot 2

• During shoot 2 we set up the track and dolly and we got phoebe to dress up in the costume which she wore in the last shoot so that it made it continues, this went really well.
• The shot came out really smoothly and will add a effect to our production which will make it look more professionally made.
• The problem which we faced is that the dolly didn't fit through door way and so we couldn't film all the way through.

 

 

 

 

• We had to place the letter in the same place as before so that the sequence would look continuous and so we were able to cut back to the high angle shot.
• The track and dolly was simple and easy to set up and it came out really well so I hope that the shots will help up to improve our production.

 

 

 

 

ED NW group- reflection of editing

• Today we continued to edit the rough cut in this when we managed to finish off the titles including putting our names onto the production and our company 'N.E. FILM'.
• Natalie and I then started to put on the audio that I had taken from free sound and put some of these sounds onto the production. The sound added a real effect to the scene and added real atmosphere.
• We played about with the lightening on the red light on the psycho's lair and so we adapted it too look darker and this improves the aesthetics of the scene.

NW ED: Group rough cut feedback

Feedback received from our peers after a viewing of our rough cut.

What went well:

• Very good continuity editing and sound
• Good use of costume
• Nice range of shots
• Very effective use of mise-en-scene in set design of the psychos lair, very good location
• Very good titles and simplistic font
• Really liked the closing shot from outside the house
• Great camera movement, map shots are the best
• Good controlled lighting in the two scenes
• Good dramatic hit at the end
• Several very well framed shots

What could be improved:

• Improve canted angle shot
• Sound mixing for drama, tension and pace
• Longer/more reaction shots
• Non-diegetic sound
• Too little time on the letter if the audience needs to read it
• Use more silences

ED NW-group reflection of editing

• During today we continued to edit using premier and managed to make our opening 2 minutes as we have all our footage onto the time line and make a rough cut of it.
• myself and Natalie refined the cutting on some footage and made minor tweaks to improve the continuity of some scenes. We also spent some time to make the jump cutting look more professional and add a effect to the scene.
• we also got the chance to add titles onto the production, in this we used our researched names of actors for independent horror films to put onto the film. we cut these so that they were part of each scene meaning that they came into a scene as it came off the screen and left with it.
• we added a red light effect to the scenes in which are in the lair this helps the audience to differentiate between the two scenes.