Editing Process

Pre-Editing

1.1 To begin with, we digitilised our footage onto the Hurtwood Apple Surver, so we could watch it in FINAL CUT PRO and start the logging process with our shots.

1.2 Once the footage had been digitilised, we created bins to place the different shot types and then watched out footage, selecting the shots we wanted and places them in the bins, (logging). We made sure we named the shots clearly, (e.g. Twin at Statue CU), so we would be able to identify them easily later, when it came to placein running order on the timeline.

1.3 While we had about 30mins of footage, we found that some of this wasn't useable, so we didn't log these shots. We had many shots that were the same, as we had filmed them more that was to make sure we would have one we were happy with.

Continuity Editing

2.1 Once all the shots we wanted had been logged, we then selected the best of these and began to place them into an order on our timeline.

2.2 We debated about many of the shots, as we wanted the sequence to be as smooth running as possible, with good continuity between the shots. We wanted the shots to flow, telling a story, so the film was effective. It took us a lot of time to do this, but after we had done this it did look much better than it had when we first begun putting the shots together. We found that some of the shots didn't fit well together, so this process took a long time.

2.3 We used many rapid cuts in between the shots to speed up the pace of the film, therefore increasing the tension. We alternated between shots of the mother and twins to show that the storyline clearly (i.e. that the mother was searching frantically for her daughter)

2.4 As one of the twins was supposed to be a ghost, (and therefore not seen by the mother) for the end of the opening sequence we had to use shots without the 'ghost twin' in, when the mother found her daughter. This was a hard part of the editing process, as we had to do a lot of cutting in order to make sure the viewer would realise that one of the twins was a ghost. This was best achieved by using a wide shot with both the twins in, and then quickly to the same wide, but without one of the twins.

2.5 We did have a few problems with continuity in our editing, as some of the shots that were meant to be the same had slight differences in for example hand position which meant they couldn't be used together. However we overcame this by finding other shots to use

Graphics

3.1 We decided to use for the footage for the title sequence and then use separate photographs for the title sequence. We thought this would be more effective, as the photographs go someway to explaining why one of the twins is a ghost.

3.2 We scanned in old black and white family photographs I had at home and then edited them using ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 2.

We used the red brush and red splatter tools, to edit the photos, to make it appear as if a ghost child had drawn on the photographs, either in red pen, or maybe blood.