Production - The Editing Process

Editing the Opening Sequence

When first started editing we decided to first structure our sequence in the correct order so that we wold have the "skeleton" of our sequence to build upon. So we import all of our footage and then decided to correct the position of sound and the clips. We structure our sequence by running if thug our animatic, giving us an idea of the timing of each sequence and the shots. This proved successful has shown in the image below.

Using Final Cut Pro's timer help show the length of our clip to show that we were giving our clips the right amount of timing. once they were in placed we looked at the sound of the piece and made sure that when we cut the shots the sound would move smoothly as the visual. This was done by separating the sound from the clip and then moving to a position were it alined the movement of an actors mouth or the background sound. For example when we cut part of a clip the background noise didn't match as a bird was cut mid chirp therefore we over came this issue by moving the sound so the next shot would overlap some of the sound. Overall making the sequences move immersive and continuous.

We then moved onto the lighting as we had an issue we darkness within some of the shots due to being in a wooded area. We used colour balance and adjustment within Final Cut to help clearly define the actors face and give the scene more clarity. Thus then stopping minimal distraction which could put off the audience when watch the opening sequence. Here is Megan and Myself work on those adjustments.

As you can see we adjusted the colour and saturation so that we could clearly see Betty within shot.

We then decided to develop a low saturation to the whole sequence to give a familiar sense to the audience as this is a convention often used within Horror. for this we change the exposure of the footage so that it would darken the scene therefore giving it a darkened hue. This gave a isolated dark scene for the actors to be in therefore suggesting danger or giving the atmosphere of upset and depression. This is a screen shot of Megan and Myself changing the exposure.

  

Overall we feel are sequence has came very far in the process but it still needs to be refined. We are going to show the draft cut to are focus group to see how we can improve on editing and the sequence overall.