Editing session 5

30/11/15

In today's editing session we continued to cut down shots and re ordered some to create the montage.

The second shot in this clip has been colour matched to the shot after it so it doesn't look out of place, even though it is a different location as this isn't relevant at this point in the trailer.  The lighting of the shot was also too high key to look like it belongs in a horror trailer and it wouldn't make the audience feel tense. The new colour of the image exaggerates the colour of her eyes which makes her look mesmerizing for a male audience, but it also clearly shows her distraught emotion which looks effective.

In future editing sessions, I want to think about speeding up these shots to create a really fast paced and dramatic montage to create a rush of adrenaline for the audience. This will intrigue them to want to watch the film therefore making it more popular.

We also experimented with the speed of of the shot below to make the montage of shots quicker and sharper to make it more intense for the audience. We increased the speed by x2 and we put jump cuts in this shot, however after watching it, I felt like this sort of effect is more suited to a comedy film and it didn't look sinister as most sinister shots are slow paced. Therefore, we decided to  remove the speed effect and cut this shot down using the blade tool so it wasn't too long and boring for the audience. Now the shot is much slower than the rest of the shots in the montage, I suggested to place it in the build up to the montage as I felt it wouldn't have looked right in the fast montage, and the trailer wouldn't make sense if it wasn't in narrative order as this would have confused the audience and the shot would have looked out of place.

                           

For a few of the shots in today's editing session, we had to crop as we had filmed these shots portrait, as well as others in past editing sessions. However, cropping this shot worked to our advantage, because again, it focuses on the emotion of the character which is a convention of a psychological horror.

Cropping shots on Final Cut Pro X doesn't affect the quality of the shot either which is good as it means we can use all our shots and still create a professional looking trailer