Editing

I believe our filming may be a little too short to last a whole 2 minute intro, so we may need to use credits in between images, rather that alongside them. Changing to a black screen, and putting thriller font writing in white, may be the best option to help lengthen our opening, and give more of a suspense effect.

I think straight cuts will be the best transitions, as it seems straight forward and will not deprive the scene from suspense. We do however have a clip that starts with the effect of eyes opening, which may work as a transition from a screen with credits on, back to real images. Another transition that we may use is a 'fade'. This will be used very little though, as different transitions could make our opening seem cheap, and will ruin suspense.

Plenty of the sounds we are using throughout our opening are completely natural sound, but we also plan to have some non-digetic background music playing throughout. It will continue to get louder as the film progresses and become more violent. Added sound effects may be needed to finalize critical suspense moments in the opening, and help create the atmosphere needed.

The credits that seem most fitting, are white edgy effect writing, and a black screen placed between different clips of images we filmed. Colours of the images may also be change as we may need to alter brightness and contrast to create the conventional 'night-time' thriller opening.

The background music we have decided to use will be based on music that has already been produced, but will be changed slightly by Devante and myself as we will be performing two different genres to create a classic mood change in a thriller.

Now that the editing has been finished, we used many different techniques to help create a good thriller atmosphere, and also to help improve the plot and on screen images. Our biggest piece of editing was more than likely the sound. There were several occasions on which we either recorded the sound purposely to be separate from the images, so the sound was clearer and more effective. There was also a scene in which on screen there is a flashback taking place, and I did a voice over which was edited and fitted perfectly for the time signatures needed.

Another piece of editing that we used throughout the opening was math-on-match action. Its a skillful piece of editing that fits seamlessly into our film, and its a skill that would also go unnoticed by someone that didn't pay attention to different camera angles. It creates more of a 3D visual perspective that makes a scene appear more realistic.