After the class watched the rough cut of our film we received feedback from, the other groups, the feedback was about editing and whether or not it was typical to that of a conventional thriller film.
From the feedback we decided to change a lot of the editing in our opening sequence. To start with we deleted all the video transitions throughout due to that fact they appeared rushed, as well as this the majority of them were cross fades, with some of the later clips having 'fade in, fade out' transitions.
we have now decided to use more cuts to each shot to help the film run smoothly and keep the viewer wanting more, because 'fade in fade outs' don't create excitement and tension.
We have changed the volume levels on the heartbeat soundtrack during the flashbacks because they were to loud and over powering. we found this out from our audience feedback, we know now that the sound levels were to high taking attention away from what was going on, on screen. We lowered the sound levels, we did this by double clicking on the audio and dragging the decibel down to minus 28.
We have currently only re edited the first 40 seconds of footage, but it is still a great improvement. We have an extreme close up on Arthur's eye, which have edited by changing the colour slightly to a light red which brings out the centre of his eye. As well as this we edited a glow on to it to help it stand out. The audio for this clip is now linked to the video transitions and is very effective.
Changes we are still going to make are definitely to re-record the speech, we can do this because the majority of the shots where the actors are talking is them not facing the camera, this makes it easy to do. we are rerecording the sound because the actors aren't speaking as if they are actually in that situation.
We have also cut down certain clips because they dragged on far to long meaning the audience can lose interest. For example the first flashback where there is a point of view from Arthur's perspective we have cut down by 4 seconds to help the film flow.
Other edits we have done are getting a sound effect to make the punches seem more realistic. This also makes it seem more professional. the way we filmed the punches means we can put on a punching sound effect, we are however having problems with finding a realistic sound effect. An idea i had was to use a punching effect from another film because they are already realistic.this could have copyright related issues.
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