Editing

Beth edited the shots with the help of Mollie. They worked on cutting the shots whilst Cristi and I filmed some sound effects. When Cristi and I were done, we gave our views on wether we felt the shots lasted for too long and whether the match on action flowed professionally.

Whilst creating sound effects, I recorded many options of each sound so we could see what worked best with the camera shots. I recorded different breathing paces as well as asking different people to breathe so that I could hear which recording sounded scary enough to create tension in the film opening through sound effects. I recorded some running footsteps (which I can be seen doing in the picture) but due to timing issues with the footsteps not going at the same pace as the feet moving in the film, I have not been able to edit that sound into the film in a professional way, instead it sounded odd and therefore I have not used them. I feel that it was important to record our own sounds and not just get sound effects from the internet so that I could commit to the role of sound editor and experience creating sounds from the recording stage until making sure the sound is edited in correctly for the final cut. I am very happy with how the music sounds when I edited that into the film opening. I made the music start at a specific time, when the scary character appears. The uncomfortable soundtrack lets the audience know that something scary is happening so that they are on the edge of their seat and want to watch on, which essentially is what a film opening is all about.