When we began to edit our two minute opening of a thriller film, we saw that there were parts that we filmed that were not steady and were very shaky; this is because of we did not use the tripod properly and we filmed some footage's hand held. We decided to re-film some shots, such as our Establishing shots of a local setting.
We uploaded our film introduction into Adobe Premier Pro and began the editing process. We wanted to use the black and white effect to show clearly the two different types of personality our character had. The black and white filter made our costume choice stand out as the black represented the ‘dark and deranged’ mood whereas the white symbolised everything’ good and pure’ about the character. Our editor, Marissa did this by going into video effects à image control à black & white and dragged this onto our timeline where the effect was needed.
I used black and white for the beginning clips where everything seemed ‘normal’ such as getting dressed and the everyday activities our character can be seen doing.
We used split screen
to compare and contrast the two different frames rather than having it as a long
sequence. By using this effect you could also clearly see the full effect of the
black and white filter.
To
Split screen- I clicked on the image clip on the top right corner and rescaled
it, I then overlapped another clip and also rescaled it, I put them side by side
which created the split screen effect, the lighting was different in each clip
so I toggled the opacity of the clips on the timeline by dragging the yellow
line up or down to make the lighting on the clips similar. I continued to do
this for the scenes where Dawn is getting ready/waking up.
We used flashes of our main character in between our
flowing sequences to add a sudden tensity to our film and hopefully scare the
audience and draw them in to watch more. To do this our editor cropped a clip
which did not have any added effects to.
I
cropped it using the razor tool and dropped the clips onto the timeline in the
specific places.
The head
shaking was the hardest and most time
consuming part of our editing due to the fact that both clips had to be visibly
seen in order for it to have the full effect,as well as overlapping both parts
of film we also had to speed up the clip of the actual head shaking because the
motion was too slow for the effect we required.
I overlapped a clip on top of another clip
and made pin pointed sections and toggled
the opacity of them to create a shaking head effect which we saw on the
T.V program ‘Misfits’ .
We faded out of the head
shaking into complete blackness to separate the film
sequence.
I then added a ‘dip to
black effect’ at the end ( video transitions à disovle à dip to black and dragged
this effect onto the timeline.
To speed up the one clip of our main character
walking Marissa split a clip using the razor tool but did not crop it, she did
this so that she could increase the speed of the clip for each section to create
a fast, demented walk effect. The speed was increased by 10% at every cut that
was made. There were no specific times at which the video was cut and sped up and this therefore reflects the frame of
mind of which our character is in.
I
then used the effect ‘dip to white’ at the end of this scene to create a
‘flashed’ effect to fade out of our film introduction. I then cropped some clips
and as the character closes her eyes and I added the ‘dip to black’ effect so
the audience feel like they closed their eyes before viewing the title of our
film.
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