Past few weeks - editing and re-filming

For the past few weeks we have been editing our film in Final Cut, (after importing it onto a mac) we found that we needed more variety of camera shots and angles to convey the mood of the film, such as low angle shots, so after a basic edit to get the story and film going in the right direction, we decided on some more shots and set out to do some more filming. The new shots we had helped to create the mood and made the film much more interesting to watch. 

After some more editing, we decided that showing the killer wasn't a very good idea as it destroys the mood and cancels out the suspense we want, it also didn't make the killer seem threatening due to the shots that were done. So, we went out to take some point of view shots from the killer, of him gradually getting closer to his victim, this, rather than seeing the killer watching from behind a tree, was a lot better at showing the mood and also builds suspense.

Whilst detailed editing was taking place by me (tom) and Bradley, Grace and Megan were working on the opening credits, choosing a font and animation that suited our film and helping set the mood. 

After and almost final edit we found that the ending just instantly killed the mood, because of what happened, it just didn't work, whatever we did, so we set out to do more filming concentrating on the ending to make the killers appearance sudden and scary and also give the audience an idea of what has happened without actually showing it. This was a good ending to our film, showing two murderers, rather than one, to surprise the audience, however it didn't work with the rest of our filming as the colors of the environment were different, the shot was also at an angle so it looked like our two victims were jumping. This made us choose an ending we had already filmed, although they didn't show two murderers like we recently tried, it still had the murderer suddenly appear to frighten the audience.

After we had finished putting the shots together we imported our finished opening credits into our film, and put them into the film, this was the end of our visual editing. We moved onto the soundtrack, we are using diegetic sounds such as heavy breathing, along with non-diegetic sounds to build suspense. 

During all this Megan was creating a picture for our production company "poison apple", to act as the logo for it, it consists of some hands holding an apple with some screws in it, it also shows a mouth as if about to bit into it, and given the name, poison apple, shows death, the screws also help this idea, so this logo fits in with the mood of the film.