Photos from fourth filming shoot and editing

Due to the fact my group and I felt that there was no real climax or final tension to our film introduction I thought that the shot I filmed of Elliot coming down the stairs would be a good clip to use to create this. Originally we cut and edited him walking all the way down the steps, but I felt the way to build tension would be by cutting the clips very short and having them flick between him and

Sophie in her room. Each clip of Sam coming down from the attic was less than a second long, whereas Amy's were slightly longer. Once he was down, we added in the bit when Sophie is watching TV and looks towards the door because she hears something. This clip is used because we did not film Sam walking towards her room therefore we needed to show something else in the meantime, and also because Sophie is finally aware something is wrong which lets the audience know something bad is about to happen! The final shot we imported was the shot I told Claudie to film from outside the door. This brings closure to our film as he shuts the door on the camera, which we used to then show the title once again. We did this by adding the 'fade to white' transition as the white door slammed, then adding the text 'Prey' into it which we made deep red like blood. I felt this was a much better ending to our introduction than what it would have been if we had not filmed these last few shots today. Ellen added the 12A rating next to the title of our film. At first I wasn't sure if this was really necessary as this is rarely, if ever seen at the start of a film. I felt it made it look more like a trailer which was not the task but my opinion was overpowered so we kept it. The final thing we did to the editing of our film was add the voice over that Tilly recorded again, as the title was on display, but only the end part... "like I was his prey". We chose to add this because it emphasises the title and reminds the audience of the start of the film and how the man sees the children he is molesting. As his prey. This would make a great start to the beginning of the rest of our film if we were to have made it into a full length thriller movie.

(next day)

Finally, today we finished the last of our editing. After watching the movie over and over whilst showing it to our friends, I looked out for minor mistakes to ensure everything was perfect in our film. I noticed that the colouring in some of the clips towards the end were different to those at the beginning because I turned the saturation down when we edited these as I felt the scene needed to be gloomier as the day was quite bright. This would tie in well with the mood of the situation going on. I therefore had to change each and every clip to a saturation of 66% which took a while but in the end it looked better. I then decided to change the colour of Amy and Elliot's credit transitions because they were white like our names were (Olivia, Ellen, Claudia and Matilda), which seemed very confusing as it was not clear who were the actors and who were the producers, so I changed the colour of the text to a deep red like the end title for Amy Williams' and Elliot Williamson's names, and kept ours white but added 'Produced by' before the first name to ensure there was no misunderstanding.