Editing Diary

Once we had finished the main part of our thriller, we decided that we would get some of the editing out of the way, so there wasn’t a big rush at the end to finish and edit an opening thriller sequence. The main problem we had when we were editing was how to darken the scene, because we filmed in a well lit boiler room, without no lighting it was impossible to film in, so decided to film with the lights on and edit it on the computer to darken the scene. We all decided to edit at one time to put our ideas together to get the best out of the thriller. Leila especially was the best at editing and knew a lot about 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 when we had free periods two of us would edit and the other two would work on the blog. 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 parts, these either had to be ‘cut’ because they where too long, or it didn’t flow with the next scene. The boiler room was very noisy with all the machines and pipes, so we had to edit out the sound and introduced it when dialogue was use. Before we even started to film we didn’t want to have any dialogue, only screaming has been involved. As we are now at the end of filming our thriller, all we need to do is finish editing, and put the credits on. We will spend a lot of time at lunch and free periods and some lessons to finish it. We will watch some past thrillers to see how their credits are in the film so we can get some ideas and apply it to our thriller. Once we have found our legal music that we want, we can add that to the thriller and cut it to where we want it to be played.

Tom Payne