March Editing Diary

 

4th March

As it is getting close to the deadline for our final trailer, we have been doing a lot of editing! Our trailer is almost exactly how we want it, so there is not much left to do! Today we tried out different formations of shots, to see which were the most tension building, and which caused the most fright when they all flashed up; i.e. masked faces, weapons, getting closer to the camera etc. We also put on some sound that we recorded of a car engine, which is going to signify the murders waiting in their car for the victim to come home.

6th March

Trailer order is our main focus today. On Monday, we pretty much sorted our the order of our trailer, so today we were left with making sure that non of the shots we wanted to flash up were too long, and some short shorts were long enough that the audience could still see what they were. We want every shot to connect with our audience, so making sure they are long/short enough is very important. We managed to finish the beginning of our trailer today, so it is exactly how we want it. We have not finished the middle and ending yet as we are still trying the different formations to see the most effect sequence of shots.

8th March

Today was supposed to be focused on editing, but we quickly completed what we needed to do, so our middle is FINISHED!! Or so we hoped! We still felt like something was missing, so we made the best of our time and went into the main hall at our school. Even though it was just us two girls, and we had zero actors and no mask; we managed to find half a mask so one of us wore it and pretended to be the bad guy. Luckily we were wearing dark clothes so we were able to film some shots, which we then quickly put onto Adobe and edited into our middle bit. We added them into the middle as the beginning was how we wanted it, and we didn't feel that they would be dramatic enough for the ending. Only one or two shots we filmed today went towards the end.

11th March

We have left sound to the very end, in order to decided what is the best music/voice for our trailer and what we want it to portray. Last night we asked someone to sing the nursery rhymes '1,2 buckle my shoe' and 'rockaby baby' to see which rhyme would sound the best. Today we put them onto our trailer and although they sounded good we didn't feel that the voice sounded child like enough and spooky enough, but for the time being it will have to do. We also put on the sound effect of wind, and put on another sound we were able to create from swinging curtains, which was a creeking, metal noise.

12th, 13th & 14th March

These three days have been very important for our trailer. We have massivly focused on music recently as we weren't happy with the sound we had previously filmed. Over these three days; we went to the music department and into the studio and recorded our own sound to put onto our trailer. We have added more and more to the sound as we went along as we still felt like bits are missing. We have not put it onto our trailer yet as we have not had the chance, but will be doing that on Monday.