Editing - First Draft

When editing the first draft of our Thriller, we took the editing in turns this was so that each of us managed to get the same amount of editing time.

When editing our Thriller we focused on the transitions between shots, this was especially focused on when we looked at the final title (Sacrament) we edited this so that the screen flashed when it came on screen, we wanted to do this so even if the audience were not paying attention the flash would grab their attention in order to allow them to know the name of the film.

We found that when editing the sound into our Thriller we had to focus clearly and each have a turn listening through the headphones this was because we wanted to make sure that the sound was played at the exact right moment. This took a lot of concentration as sometimes the sound was only one or two milliseconds out.

The main editing part was all of the different shot types being strung together to make the opening sequence this took us a long time to do, but the time spent was reflected in the precision and professional feel that the Thriller had.

Editing - First Draft

Feedback


After completing our first draft we received feed back from Mrs Dughan. We received feedback from the rest of our As media class as we sat down and watched everyone's thriller videos and having to write down 4 point of constructive criticism. From the feedback from these two sources we found that the major points which needed to be changed were:

• Not enough variety of shots were used this made it lack tension and narrative enigma
• The initial titles didn't read well or seem  professional enough
• Some of the secondary titles were hard to read
• Some shots were blurry
• Moments lacked precision with the white balance
•  The heart beat sound lost the effect that we wanted

From the feedback that we were given we decided that the best course of action would be to re-shoot and re-edit our Thriller in order to reach the highest grade possible.We planned to re-shoot a larger variety of different shot types and to have the actor doing a bit more than just skipping to add more tension and make the opening sequence less boring.

Filming - Shoot

Over the past weekened myself and the group have been down to our location to film the first draft of our Thriller Film. We made our way up to the location and began to film, we found that problems began to arose when we realised we had not planned as well as we thought. We had no idea the order in which we were going to shoot. We decided where to begin and began to film, we found that the shots that we did take were of a good standard but not of a large variety.

The shots that we filmed consisted of: High angle, Low angle, Close ups, Long Shots, Birds Eye and a variety of pans.

We found that the positive points from filming were: the make-up and costume for our actor created a decent amount of atmoshpere, also location in which we chose to shoot created a good amount of narrative enigma and linked well with out theme and narrative.