Editing

After compiling our footage into Sony Vegas, me and Oliver worked on cutting the footage into a rough version of our opening sequence, focusing on the cross cutting between the colour and black and white sequences to get the pace just right to build the most tension. Zoran then focused on editing the titles into our opening sequence.

We made a cut from Oliver walking looking confused and intense straight to a shot of the boiled kettle. This cut builds the tension and implies that the boiling water is a representation of the murderer's volatile personality.

Another response we got from our rough cut was that there was too long a gap when the film fades to white. A lot of viewers thought the film was over, or their attention was lost. We then suggested the idea of splicing two flash ons of an image of a gun. This represents the murder which is occuring during these moments and also creates mystery within the audience.

For the shot of the gate closing, me and Oliver chose to cut to the next shot when the sound of the gate closing crashes. This connects the gate shot and the next in a good way because it resolves the first, so it goes seemlessly with the next. The sound also crescendos, just like at other points in the film, such as the end where the sound increases, then crashes to silence. We used this similar technique of the sound effect leading to the next shot, with the shot of the man placing his coffee mug on the worktop.

Overall, we learned a lot about editing making this opening sequence. I had some basic knowledge of editing but this task really put me to the test, and I anticipated it would with the complicated process of cross cutting.