Editing

The editing of our movie took longer than the actual filming. The software we used to edit our movie was final cut express on a apple mac. When we first started editing our movie we did not know how to use the software appropriately therefore our teacher had to assist us a lot whilst editing the movie. We managed to put all our clips onto the software and we ordered them properly and deleted clips we never needed. We then set out to clean up our clips cutting out bits of the clips we never needed and cutting out any sounds and dialogue the camera picked up which we never needed.

We then started to add transitions between our clips to make them look smooth and professional. A couple examples of transitions we used were; fade in, fade out and dissolve. These cuts helped our film to look extremely professional and smooth.

We also used other editing tools such as special effects. We used a special effect on our scene where the killer comes out with a knife to Ali and Henna. The special effect we used was lighting, we used this special effect to shock the audience and give them the little fright whilst they are on the edge of the seat feeling which is one of the main codes and conventions of a thriller film.

We then added sound to our movie using the editing suite. Their was no sounds on the editing suite therefore we had to go on a website to find sounds suitable for our movie ourselves. We went on the website and got a range of sounds which suited our movie such as mysterious and thriller sounds and put them on to final cut express to check which one suited the chosen scenes the most.

The final thing we done was add credits to the ending of the 2 minute introduction to a thriller. Our teacher showed us how to add credits and gave us a picture of what we should be writing for our credits therefore we done this without any problems however the credits looked a bit dull and boring therefore we asked our teacher if we could change it make it look not so boring. He showed us how to change the fonts on the credits and the colour we then changed the font to a more bloody kind of font which suits the film and we changed the writing to red which makes the credits not so boring and more relevant to the actual film.