3 lessons of editing

In this lesson we started editing our thriller opening. We started off capturing the filming we did on the previous lesson onto final cut. After we did this we started to choose which part we needed in our thriller by shortening it by using (i) in point, (0) out point.

Our thriller would start with a long panning shot of Emre walking down the stairs only seeing his shoulders and above. To make a match cut we followed the action by a still low high angle shot of emre walking down the same stairs. Then followed by a long shot of emre finally finish walking down the stairs and walking towards the camera. This followed by a black screen, this was to show the title. Then there was a stil mid shot of emre walking past the camera and walking down another stairs, low high anle shot of him walking down the stairs again, the a OVS shot of teddy looking at his watch. Followed by a POV shot of emre looking at me and a POV shot of me looking at him. There was a long shot of emre walking to teddy sitting down, low shot of emre placing the suitcase down beside him when he sits down next to teddy only showing their legs and the suitcase. It continues with teddy picking up the bag and walking away, still low high angle of teddy walking pass the camera. Then a long shot of teddy walking towards the camera with Me following him from behind. We end this by having a mid shot of emre looking to the right where teddy walked away and looking at the suitcase, then a POV shot of him picking up the suitcase. Close up of emre opening the suitcase, then finally a close up showing the item that was in the suitcase which was a mobile phone.

After we edited all the shots we started to add credits to it such as the title, the actors names, director, cameraman etc.. we then started on the hard bit, making the soundtrack for our thriller. As a group we found it hard to make the soundtrack. We went through all the sounds that was provided and started to play around with it. We started to mix different sound together such as bass and violin sounds and it kind of worked out pretty good. We then played around more add rain noises, thunder... after we experimented with the sound we ended up with a very good soundtrack. Its starts of with a thunder noise which contributes with the rain as we filmed in the rain. It gradually gets more up beat following the action. The part when teddy looks at his watch the sounds get faster using the violin sound. This is to build up the action so the audience will start know that somethink important is going to happen. It continues to the part when teddy picks up the suitcase. This part the sound contribute more with the action as it changes abit when teddy picks the suitcase up. Our soundtrack ends with a sudden stop when the item in the suitcase is shown.

I thought that the soundtrack really helped made this opening more like a thriller as it builds up as the action builds on to the important part. As a group we was very happy of what we have produce. Adn also we named our thriller ‘Exchange’.