Post-Production

I was the designated editor as my strongest point is editing, however i wanted my partner to be there while i was editing so i could have a different viewpoint other than mine.

As we viewed what we had filmed we realised there was a few scenes that we had to re-shoot because of lighting or simply because they didn't look right, however we were mostly proud of what we had shot.
Having to use Adobe Premiere was something i didn't enjoy very much as it can be complicated and also because i was used to using Final Cut Pro, However, i managed to get used to it and learnt a lot.

The form of editing that i did was linear, following a sequence of events, which made things easier for me. Editing followed a couple of simple steps, simply dragging the clip that you've cut into the timeline and carry on doing so for the rest of the editing process. Also having to render the sequence after.

After getting all the clips into order i set off adding transitions and filters. Adding transitions wasn't hard at all, although finding transitions that suit the genre of horror proved quite difficult and we decided to stick with straight cuts and occasionally fade to black, which worked well. As cause of the lighting in the interior of the house i had to darken every scene from the house, which was time consuming and also made the software run a bit slower.

While watching what i had edited we realised that the sequence was too long and we had to cut out some footage in order to keep in the 3 minute range. The stabbing scene is the most important scene and we wanted it to impact the audience so we thought it would be a good idea to slow it down so the scene is elongated and creates more tension.

The sound was quite problematic, we didn't have many resources as to sound effects as they were more for comic and sci-fi films, so we had to re use a few tracks. Also as we had no time left we couldn't record the voice of the killer so were asked our teacher for advice and he told us that the audience would understand so we didn't include the voice of the killer, which was a shame. 

We had good audience feedback, some people were genuinely scared, although there is a scene in the sequence were people find some humour, which wasn't intended.

Things i would do or change if i had the chance to do again, i would take more time to edit and allow more time to focus on the sound and also have some time in the beginning to get used to the software.

The opening sequence, will be exhibited on YouTube which is popular among young people, it's on the internet which is global  and also follows a mainstream genre and it is free which makes it easy to distribute.