We started editing on the Adobe Premiere Pro as me and Rachel were comfortable working with this programme and school networks provided us with this. The start of the editing process was the easiest part as we just had to cut the parts of our footage and put them into place using the razor tool.
We were comfortable with this as we learned how to do it whilst we were doing our preliminary task. However the editing became more advance as we had to choose the video transitions and effects to put onto our film and these shouldn't just be chosen to make it look good or really professional but had to add tension and have a reason behind it. We decided to use fades for the majority of the opening sequence and for all of the first part as we believe this is a clever and simple way of creating tension and definitely suspense towards the audience. Also, we used really short cuts at the beginning so using these along with the quick fades, dissolves and cross fades, we think this creates a strong tension filled build up to the end of the opening sequence.
Towards the end of the opening sequence, we used more quick cuts to raise the tension and quicken the pace towards the end. Also after the big main title, we wanted to give a bit more information as we think the 20 or so seconds after the opening sequence is quite important so we made the main title come up quite quickly so we could add a bit more of the story afterwards.
Titles: We had a lot of titles that we wanted to place in our film, and me and Rachel think that whilst we were watched some opening sequence, that the ones filled with more titles have more tension and have more suspense as it makes the audience want to see and know what happens on the next bit of action. We also made our title font, very simple, not just so it's readable but as we looked at some opening sequences to medical thrillers such as 'Atomony', the font is simple and quite formal as it represents the professions in a thriller such as Scientists and Doctors.
We contemplated about whether we should change the whole image of the film to black and white but we tried it and it didn't look they way we wanted to, so we decided against this as it didn't look realistic like we wanted it too, and kept the original colour, just enhanced it a tiny bit to bring out the vivid colour in the backgrounds. After we put our film together, we had to apply sound, but sound that created tension and built up at just the right times.
Our music came from a free website called http://www.freemusic.com/ and we found 2 perfect tense filled tracks that would give our film the edge of suspense it needed. The piece of music have drum beats to build the tension but also have piano solo's slotted in the create the eerie and suspense filled atmosphere. The image below shows the harsh and light sounds within the piece of music we have used, The harsh sounds are the drums building tension and in the track at some points a piano solo come in, even though it's a lovely solo piece, it draws so much suspense and anxiety towards certain times in the opening sequence.
I believe that due to the lack oif experience I have and Rachel does, we have done a decent job of making our film tense film and using all the conventions a thriller would use.
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