Account of Editing Work:

Process Of Editing Our Opening Thriller:

Day 1:
For the start of our thriller work, we began by organizing all of our shots into order using Adobe Premier, and deciding which of the same type of shots were the best ones to choose for our final thriller sequence. Once we had chosen the shots that we wanted for our sequence we took the original footage called rushes and put them on the timeline in order of each shots for a rough cut, ready for editing and cutting together in order to form our final thriller.

Day 2:
In this lesson we sadly had one member of the group away, Crerar, due to other commitments but we all worked together really well in order to get as much done in the lesson. After we finished touching up our rough cut and putting our shots in order from the last lesson, we then started to properly edit each shot by using two main tools; the razor blade tool which allowed us to chop and cut each shot in the way we wanted, and the trim handle tool where by hovering the arrow over either end of the shot we could stretch or shorten the footage. Also during the edit process we learned how we can change the lighting on different shots for each of them to match each other. We had a slight problem with some of the footage due to a shot not matching/flowing into the next resulting in us having to change the angle and camera level of the shot in order to allow it to work.

Day 3:
During this shot we next looked at the gymnast sequence shots filmed in the studio where she blacks out and sees herself performing in a dark room (the studio). During this lesson Katie and I had a little understanding, much to the amusement of others but carried on through and worked hard.

Throughout the next few days of editing I sadly missed a few lessons due to other work commitments such as my theatre exam piece which required lots of rehearsals but the rest of the group worked really hard while I was away. The next lesson I was able to attend without other commitments, it was just me and Igor working on sound. Doing this we started off by picking loads of different music from YouTube to upload and convert into a certain file format and then compressed it in H264 in order to make sure its ready to upload, and then choose a good variety of music for our thriller to see which one suited best. Next we then slowed down each music track to about %25 to make it more dark and imposing for the atmosphere for our thriller