Visual Transitions

In our film I have used fairly simple image transitions such as fade to/from black and cross dissolve. The use of any sophisticated transitions would not suit the thriller genre. Here is a screen shot of me editing the transition's properties.

Sound Editing

The incidental music used in our film is open source and adds to the atmosphere well. Here is a screen shot of where we have used a constant gain sound transition to loop the music without any sound-jumps.

Title Effects

We have made a visual effect for our film name, "Facestalk", that appears at the end of our film. The sound we put with it, as well as the visuals, all suit a thriller-genre and are farily powerful and fast. This time I decided to add a staitonary piece of text saying "Facestalk" at the end of the clip so the audience will easily recognise the name.

Video Effect, Film Name

I have put together a short video-effect clip to place at the end of the film opening.
It's fairly hard to read and requires concentration, putting the audience on the edge of their seats - conforming to typical conventions of thriller films.

Media Editing Plan

Currently our film is too long so I have written some editing adjustments we can make to reduce the elapsed time of our film.

Second Scene

Add similar (but not same) music as first scene

Open first shot with a very quick fade-from-black

First shot could start just before chris drives round corner

Inside-car shot as you brake: Start later (so the car is pretty much stopped already)

^^^Darken first few driving shot to suit the “break in” shot brightness

Open car door sooner

Feet-to-head ascending shot: Speed up UNTIL you can see jamie’s hand in pocket

Enhance sound of breaking-into window

Darken harvey’s legs at bottom-left of break-in shot

^Cut end off slightly of this shot

Start enter-corridor shot later (so Jamie walks into corridor almost straight away)

“Peter” voice slightly too echoey- try adding treble to make it seem as if she’s behind a door)

Cut end of corridor-shot off slightly (just after door-opening noise)

Quick-cut-to-black at end, just before scream

^Enhance scream noise (cut end off like we talked about)

About Studios Logo

Ink writing connotes horror, mystery and tension. For this reason we decided to use a thick, blotchy font to suit this concept. The logo is also all in capitals to emphasise it.

Media Editing Plan

Currently our film opening is too long, so I decided to create a rough editing plan to correct each shot.

Media Studies
Chronological Editing Plan

First Scene

Blur out “in a relationship with” (or cut it so it’s white)

Commence opening shot sooner

“About studios present” speed up!

2^nd scroll down  picture shot starts higher than first shot ends

Exclude map on 2^nd scroll down shot (fade black earlier)

“A chris/Jamie film” change effect, speed up very slightly

For “a chris/Jamie film”, fade in later on the side shot (so J turns on light almost straight away)

Cut side shot at end so we don’t see paper being turned over (saves time)

Password entry, speed up

Hit-return shot is too long – cut the last half (or so) off

Bird’s eye shot could be cut shorter

Facebook screens could be sped up

^Speed loading of page right up so it’s not noticeable

^Speed photo viewing up slightly

Stalker stroking screen shot: Fade to black very slightly earlier

Robyn jones at bed & map display shots can be cut shorter

Start bird’s eye shot slightly later (so stalker’s hand straight away moves from mouse to keyboard)

Speed up Jamie receiving paper from printer (because they won’t think it’s printing they’ll think jamie’s just picking up a piece of paper)

Key’s in draw shot: Start slightly later (so draw opens instantly)

^try sound bridge the draw-opening sound and then cut half way through the inside-draw shot

Wrench shot: cut slightly earlier at end (too much lingering on the tv)

Outside high-angle shot: Cut end off earlier (so we don’t see chris faffing with keys)

Behind-car shot: Speed up once chris is in (so it appears as if he’s started the car very quickly)

^The engine-start noise could be slightly louder, and keep it the same speed (because the images will be quicker than the sound once you’ve sped it up – that’s bad)

FACESTALK noise bit too loud ßHave FACESTALK appear at end of second scene, not first

Can’t use ‘ring’ music

Using Facebook

To use Facebook properly, and without accessing anybody else's account, we created a new e-mail address and Facebook account.

Editing Effects

Adding some effects to enhance our video.
Here you can see me adding an extra video-layer with low opacity to help show my face as a reflection in the screen.

Improved Soundtrack

Here's another soundtrack I found on an open source website, http://www.opensourcemusic.com
This is more suitable as it has less sci-fi elements to it. I intend to loop the first section only as the rest of the sound builds up too much.

 

Soundtrack

The making of thiller music is incredibly difficult and requires instruments and effects that are not easy to get hold of. For that reason, I have turned to open-music websites to find appropriate soundtracks.
Here is a soundtrack I found on an open-source music website, http://echoprint.me.
It sounds as if would work well in a thriller film due to its bizzare, mysterious noises, low tempo and echoing effects.

Logo

Our "About Studios" logo is in the design stage and will be uploaded soon

Stalker's Den

Here is a first edit of the opening title sequence. Much more for this scene to come!

End Scene

Here is the first scene we filmed - the end scene! Below is our first edit