Editing our Thriller

Once we had finished filming our thriller, we decided to start the editing straight , so there wasn’t a big rush at the end to finish and edit an opening thriller sequence. The main problem we had was how to create the scream affect at the beggining of our thriller we wanted a black screen and a sound of Georgia screaming over the top however after being told we could not do this on the editing programme pinnacle we decided to scrap the idea. We all decided to edit at one time to put our ideas together to get the best out of the thriller. Georgia was especially the best at editing, knew a lot about it and did most of it. The other problems that we confronted was that the editing suite was sometimes busy so we couldn’t always edit when it was suitable for us, so we would go at allocated times or book the omputer for our use. To start editing we put the camera on the dock, which was connected to the computer and uploaded the footage to the editing software. The software we used was Pinnacle. We filmed each scene a few times so we could choose the best shot for this, these either had to be ‘cut’ because they where too long or if it didnt fit to flow into the next shot. The ambient sound in the background as we were filming such as birds singing we didnt want so we had to edit that noise so you could hear our music. Before we even started to film we didn’t want to have any dialogue, only screaming was involved. We finally had to add the usic in we wanted as we could not use the choosen theme song we wanted from the film 13 as that would be copyright. In stead we had to find another pice of music to use. In the end we decided on pice that was creepy and bulided suspence until the end. Georgia then had to edit the music to make it louder towards the end when the suspence was building and quiter when our character was talking.

Georgia Day