Editing Process

From the 23rd - 27th February we had a lesson everyday to edit the footage shot for our opening sequence. 

To edit we used Premiere Pro. Using this software was great because it gave us the chance to make a really professional edit. We could manipulate the sound, add special effects and just make our opening sequence its best in this software. I really enjoyed being able to edit all of our clips.

We created a file called rushes which contained all the footage took on the day. Looking all through our shots, some of the hand held ones seemed to slightly unstable, there was too much of a camera shake, ruining them. Some of the shots that were created had some errors, for example our   actress (Flora Slater) would look into the camera at unexpected times. This would ruin our shot so we decided to cut them. This left us with few shots, though they were good, the shots left would not really help our story line so we had to think fast. 

This brought us to decide on what we were going to do to save our project.

Original Plan + Not Working = New Plan

Our first idea included having all the security camera footage to link to someone watching our female character. This grew into a video of a stalker watching the girl. We decided to make the opening sequence a lot more spooky than we anticipated. 

Using the look of 'White Noise' its made the watcher looking like some sort of security guard. We constructed this effect by ourselves in photoshop creating a template for the lines. The shots were then given a much colder colour.

We moved further into our other normal camera shots. This created the atmosphere that someone was purposely watching the girl.