Editing Apparition Film Opening

Editing our film opening was a long process as it involved editing cuts together to make the entire thing smooth. We also had to crop some shots, slow down shots and change the colouring of others. 

In this picture, you can see us cropping the frame so that you can't see the antagonists' upper body. We wanted to keep their identity a secret and when we filmed this at my house, we forgot that this is what we planned to do. Luckily, the crop feature worked quite well and the shot still looked like it had been filmed that way rather than edited. By cropping this, it meant that you can only see the antagonists' legs as they walk up the stairs, a contrast to the protagonist - who when they walked up the stairs, the audience saw their upper body. This creates suspense, because you still can't see the identity of the antagonist, but you know they're getting closer to the protagonist, the character in which the audience identifies with.

In this picture, you can see we have changed the colouring. Often in thriller films, the colour has some sort of wash over it; whether that be sepia, graywash or any other colour - this is done for effect and we wanted to create the same sort of look. By doing this, it also helped the red eyes of the antagonist (character B) stand out, which is a crucial element to our story opening. This colour change also makes the antagonists eyes look darker and more gaunt adding to the sinister feel of the character, which adds to the suspense. 

In this picture, we used slow motion. This was because we wanted to draw the audiences attention to the fact that the protagonist (character A) is taking the radio upstairs, which must mean whatever she is listening to is important. Using slow motion also gave us a chance to give the audience more information about the storyline so that they wouldn't be confused at the end. Slowing down scenes or action during a film allows the audience to focus on the smaller details that they might have missed. This creates suspense as slowing down the footage means that if something bad was to happen, the audience are helpless to stop it from happening.