Editing The Video

For our Film editing  we used the MacBook Pro with the apple software called iMovie. It was a simple and easy to use piece of software that we could edit our film opening on and get good effects like a professionals film opening would.We was able to get hold of the Mac as our teacher owned one and allowed us too use it in order for us to be able to edit properly. The screenshot below is of the opening screen which you get when you first open up iMovie. 

 

When we was editing the film, it was a very quick process as everything could be slotted into place with a few things added on top of the film footage. this whole experience lasted for a double lesson so it did not exclude 2 hours.We decided to add the "Bleach Bypass" effect on top of the entire film clips to give off the effect of being dark and not quite right. we wanted to make our audience as scared as possible and this effect gets rid of some of the light contracted by the original footage. It dulls down the Opening by a lot and gives off the effect of coldness and awareness that something may go wrong. 

For the music, we used a track off of Youtube called "scary music". This track was not copyrighted so it was free to be used by anybody. we made sure that we double checked this to make sure we was 100% aware of the risks involved if it turned out to have copyright attached. We decided to go with this music rather than something else because it gave our film opening a scary atmosphere which left audience feeling uneasy. the music was very scary and increased in tempo as the film progressed making it more scary for the audience to watch. This makes the audience feel that something is going to happen to the girl, but they are not sure what. 

We had to make sure that all clips were cut into the right size so that the film opening didn't jump and flowed in a way that it wasn't too difficult to view. the majority of the clips we had to trim down by a few milliseconds on each end, but there was also a clip that we cut 5 seconds off because the angle and position of the actors was not correct.

We added in a few black screens from where we faded the action into black,  to show who who the people where that had created the film and where it was done. One shot even showed the production company where it was made. This effect was also done to show the crossover from Fays feet walking, to Charley the dog being walked by Fay. We then continued to edit by placing the three Staring captions over the top of the footage. we made the black screens and the white writing for the credits fade in and out after a few seconds. 

We named our group Film "Prohibited" which we show in the film opening right after Fay screams because Reece is about to Kill her. Once the scream happens, we Quickly cut to black and the Red (Blood Like) text appears in the form saying Prohibited. we made the text Red in colour so that the writing really stood out and attracted the audiences attention. This text stood out the most out of all the text used as it was in a different colour and would have stuck in the audiences mind for longer.