Moving Image

We finally finished our film in the last seminar and was editing it, we have previously spent about 2 days capturing and editing it together and all we had to do in the seminar was add our erie music. However we managed to lose what we had done SORRY GROUP! So we had to re-edit again which only took an hour but we made some scenes look a lot better as we went through it again so it wasn't all bad plus we did't lose the captured scenes! we then saved it on everybody's USB! On Friday we showed Jools and he gave us some feedback and we also got feedback from the other groups which I have already written up on here.

The zooming in on the phone should be 3 separate shots instead of 1 continous zoomed in shot:

The camera/camera man spent too long re-focusing the shot which added more useless frames that were out of focus. If the scene had been created using 3 shots which when then edited together the shot would be clearer to see and more to the point, but without losing its meaning in the story.

To cut off the zoom in in the bed scene as you already understand what's happening:

This was edited because you knew what was happing and it didn't need to be as long as it was as nothing else was going to happen in that shot. So cutting this down also help kept the viewer interested in the story without becoming bored with overly long scenes.

To repeat the first 2 smoke scenes to the end:

These scenes were shown again to show the audience that they already know what will happen after the room fills with smoke. It explains that the timeline of the film is broken and that it actually starts with the end. These two scenes were also shortened as it wasn't necessary to see the whole shots again as this would make the audience bored, but just as a refresher of what they had seen at the beginning to remind them that the scene they are seeing is in the wrong order.

To add the erie Music to the text message scenes as well:

The erie music that appears during the smoke scenes was added to all the text message scenes as it gave the audience an understanding of how the character was feeling whilst reading the messages and to give it a more erie feel, without the character having to speak. It also added tension and drama to the scene, which without would be boring and dull to watch. It also explained that these messages were from the same person/thing and has some relationship to the first two scene as it shares the same erie music.