Editing is the most important part of making any film. However, for us the post production is a major part of the process as our sequence was heavily dependent on post production, to achieve the look we were going for.
It took us a lesson or so to get back into the swing of things, however, we found our feet quickly and became very familiar with using final cut pro. I feel that I improved hugely in using final cut pro, and am now quite confident with it, compared to how I was when we did our preliminary task.
After a few lesson of working with final cut pro we ran into a few problems in our editing. We found that our idea of a thematic film sequence wasn’t working as well as we had hoped it would, we encountered problems such as we couldn’t get images like the computer turning into the real mouse to look good enough or how we wanted it to look. We struggled getting the overall impact we wanted for the whole sequence. We began to feel a little bit apprehensive as to the look of our sequence, as the pieces we have filmed didn’t look as neat as we wanted them to. However, we were reassured that once we started using after effects it would look much neater and sharper, but we just needed a rough outline of how long things were going to last and where the titles would appear and disappear. So we carried on doing our basic editing, figuring out where things would go etc. After a while we came to the realisation that actually what our sequence was missing was a connecting idea or theme to tie all the individual pieces of film together to make it look like one continuous film sequence, So we decided to go back to our original idea of a psychological thriller. We did some research and decided that the thing that would look best would be to collect pictures of brain scans and insert them between each of our frames to relate the sequence to one particular theme.
We continued doing this, and we were all starting to feel more hopeful about the overall look of our piece, however we still felt it was missing something, and that it didn’t feel quite right. So once again we changed our idea and decided that a more effective way of creating our sequence would to be by making it into a diary type sequence. This idea was defiantly the favourite within our group as it allowed us to be very diverse in the style and in the choice of music we used. With time against us we had to be very definite about our decision, as we were all very adamant in the fact we wanted it to look as professional and good quality as we could—you could say we are perfectionists! We researched diary extracts and though about how to write them out, showing the digression in the writing, resembling the digression of the person our sequence would show if it were to be made into an actual film. We decided to add ambient music as a base for our thriller, which we decided help add tension. We put a person talking over the top of all of the sound as well like someone was reading from the diary. This ended out looking very good as in after affect we added in our diary extracts, making them appear throughout the sequence. We also built up the music, adding different components like heartbeats and wind. These different layers created a sense of confusion—a sense of ‘askew’. I think in the end we created a piece that was very much based on layers and levels, which are all very necessary parts of crating a thriller.
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