Editing- Practical

This is the third time our group edited together. I took charge of the mouse and made the final decisions of where to cut/ add in clips and refine our film opening to make it look more professional. First of all I cut off the end of the clip where Lucy is brushing her hand across the bush. I cut this so that it was more of a clean transition into the next clip where Lucy gets stabbed by Josh.



I cut the end of the extreme close up of Josh running the knife along the bush so that he stops in the same place as where the next clip begins. This is called continuity editing. We want to make sure we get this as close to perfect as we can.



I also cut the beginning of the clip where Lucy brushes her hand along a bush as she doesn't start moving her hand until a few seconds into the clip.




We also decided to add in repeated clips of the waterfall to build up tension and break up the clips to create suspense. We wanted to add these throughout our film opening with them getting closer together. However we fear that these repeated clips throughout our film opening will make it appear like a trailer.



We added another waterfall between the clip of Lucy walking up the stairs and the pan of the stream.

In the picture below it shows that I cut the end of the clip where Lucy walks off. We decided to do this as we have a lot of shots that are just walking and we didn't want to drag them on for too long as it may get boring and repetitive.

 

In the picture below it shows the extreme close up of Lucy's eyes looking around. We wanted to test out having a narrow angle shot, therefore I cropped out some of the nose and forehead so that you could only see the eyes.

However, when we watched back our film opening with cropped extreme close up, it looked out of place as all of the other shots were landscape and covered the whole screen. Therefore, it looked out of place so we changed it back to fit the screen as normal.

In the picture below it shows that I cut off more of the walking at the end so that there is less of it and so that it fits better with the next shot.

The picture below shows that we cut the water tricking down the stream shot as there was a pause at the beginning before any blood poured down the stream.

In this we decided to cut the ending of Josh walking away from Lucy, however we are going to re film this scene so we may not actually need to use this clip in our film opening.

I decided to cut off the ending of the walking up the stairs shot as you could see Josh walking back behind the wall. It also meant that the continuity editing looked better as it fitted better with next shot of Josh walking up the metal fence with the knife in his hand.

I decided to remove the audio from the clip where Lucy gets stabbed as we wanted to cut the clip but keep the sound going so that it overlapped into the next clip.