Editing Process

The editing process begun with uploading the film to our set computer; then using Adobe Premiere Elements software to begin edited. We firstly cut out all the parts that were not needed and were mistakes that had occured during the filming process, such as the actors laughing. This then left us with 1 or 2 best versions of each shot that we intended to use. We decided which version to use throughout all of them, and started to piece it all together, getting it in the suitable order. Some of the shots corresponded to our original story boards, such as the one of the men's legs and shoes.

Having tidied and ordered the film, we started to create and add titles. We had initially wanted to make the titles have a transition that made them appear to be gradually typed in, showing the names of the actors and then finally the name of the film. The names were: Ben Jones, Mark Wright- Premachandra and Jakob Montagu- Shaw, . However, without wasting time this wasn't possible as we didn't know how to do that effect. Despite this set-back, we did find a similar look which was a font transition called "curtain" which allowed the font to gradually come in and then out of the shot. It was close enough and still looked attractive. The style of the font was "Courier new" bold as it looked quite flat without. I had the idea of the font looking like a type-writer style, that is associated with police and crime themes. The end title was also the same but a larger size, with no transition and more centred, therefore making it more eye-catching and noticeable. Whilst the last title is shown, there is a sound clip of a gun shot, which creates mystery and intrigue as the audience is not shown who shoots who, consequently making it a cliff hanger.

Whilst editing, rendering and uploading our film to youtube, we didnt know Jakob's candidate number, which resulted in us leaving it as "0000". Once we have put our thriller on our blogs, we shall add his candidate number.

The first final version of our thriller that we uploaded to youtube was too long, to be precise it was 3mins 44 seconds, despite this, we had started to distribute our thriller in order to get ahead with the evaluation points that some of the youtube comments could be used for. This was an effective way to get some user comments as they are easily available. Having been told that we couldnt leave it that long we shortened it to 2 mins 6secs, which was a difficult process. We had to cut one large chunk of filming, which was when the two men met the night before to show Simon which house it was. We felt that this clip wasn't that important so we cut all of it out. Another thing we did overall was to shorten the shots taken and sped up the slower shots. This was an excellent and successful achievement as the film looked a lot better, because of the quicker pace. The effect of this would make the auidence be more focused and keep their attention throughout the introduction.
In the editing process we did encounter some more problems, inparticular our computer froze many times, making us lose some of our unsaved changes. One of these times was when we had infact 1 more second to lose (to make it the correct amount of time), when the computer froze. As we had not saved our progress over the last two minutes or so, we had to lose 9 seconds again. The software had luckily auto saved so the amount of seconds we had to lose was not as bad as it could have been.

After we had completely finished editing, we uploaded the new and improved version onto youtube, where we found the gunshot had not been included. However, apparently this doesn't matter as the examiners will receive our film on a disk, from the avi file we have saved onto the computer, which has the gunshot at the end.