Editing our footage 4 (extra session)

I knew that 1 final session for editing would not be enough to have an adequate piece ready as a draft before the half term and so I took it into my own hands to ask for some extra time to edit. Miss offered Thursday lunchtime and so myself and Beth went back to the room at this point to get some extra editing done. The room however was in use at lunch time so I suggested going back after school on the same day which was fine. At 3.05 I went back to Miss' room with Eboni this time as Beth could not attend.

       

We got to work straight away and checked up on the work that we had done previously. I had downloaded some sound the night before to add into the footage and so I imported this onto the footage and Eboni decided where it would fit best. We mutually decided that it would sound good during the 'dream' part of the sequence as this would coincide well with a rather sinister nursery rhyme. The music is also rather slow in tempo which is helpful is it creates drama and is very intriguing which will make the audience want to confirm their thoughts by watching the film.

Next in this session, we played around with the effects on Final cut pro as these are very influential in horror films. Just like the music during the dream, we used the same effect for all of these scenes and this was called 'Cold steel'. I chose this and Eboni agreed that we should use this as it was very dreamlike and it didn't use any particular natural colours which would allow an audience to realise that this was part of the dream. For all of the other scenes during the footage we used the 'combat' effect which we had liked from very early on. It looked very professional and we both thought that it looked very similar to those used in horror sequences that already exist.