Editing Diary

When it came to editing, we had a very basic knowledge of how to use iMovie (because of our preliminary) however we were going to have to use a lot more editing techniques in our film opening, so the majority of what we edited is fairly new to us. We started by just adding all the clips together in temporal sequence and making sure they all cut and flow into the next shot. Afterwards we then started to experiment with transitions, we were aware that most transitions tend to negatively effect the verisimilitude of a film, but we tried anyway just in case if we could make a shot look more effective. Another aspect that was new to us was the actual opening credits. We had an idea of what they would look like, we aimed for the font to be quite creepy and more informal (such as the text font in the opening credits of Se7en) we were happy with the outcome of this. After the basic outline of the editing was done, we moved on to editing certain shots for example, we made every shot have less colour saturation so it looks dull and the forest looks a lot more lifeless. We also slowed down a couple of shots (the ones where the camera focuses on random objects in the woods) so it gave us enough time to put more credits over it, we aimed to not use too many slow motion edits as that could have an impact on the verisimilitude. Once we were happy with the overall edits we made, we took it to our teachers to see if they had any input, to which they had a few ideas on how to improve it and we tweaked it accordingly (for example we changed the type of effect the credits had as well as trying to make the cuts more in time with the music).