Editing

The opening titles come out very effectively from the editing being able to make the shots smaller made the production titles a lot faster so they would work more effectively. This was also assisted by being able to speed up the process also to create a good speed for the letters to get on screen. The start of the film was done in the mono chrome, grey scale sort of effect after the Film Noir style this makes the atmosphere of the extract more intense and follows thriller conventions with a dark desaturated setting. I edit the piece of footage so that you would know what was going on, the start looks confusing due to there being no dialect in the first section this I believes put more suspense and anticipation for the audience, particularly with the music that has been used. Also the, I intended the first half to be a build put till you see the woman in the bed room. By adding in everyday objects such as the makeup and then the knives, shocks the audience and then this with the music makes it obvious what’s going on to the audience as the plot unravels. This is an epic moment I spent a lot of time editing it to get the most effective moment just so. The first time the audience see the woman is only in part they can see a part of her face in the small mirror and her back. This was cleverly achieved with a combination of skilled camera work and effective editing to make sure you could see the woman properly only what she was doing putting on the gloves. This shows the audience there’s something going on. The reflection in the mirror creates a sinister look as it’s the begging and no one knows the real plot we assume she is our villain.

The clock moment was interesting to get right as we had to set up the camera and let it record for over half an hour so we could effectively have the clocks motion by doing this we had enough footage to reverse and speed up for times which not only created a brilliant effect made a lot of sense to show time going back, to show the audience what happened before to this woman in the build up to this moment. The second half has a strong saturated colour effect this was to create a contrast in the Locations but also shows her two personas, it’s there to represent her kinder side because although she has a femme fatale nature she used to be a lot kinder but what ever happened to her has changed this. The location is completely different this is why I included a lot of establishing moments to show the area and were character is.

The editing of the movement was sometimes a little tricky due to the fact that i struggled to make some things match, our other actor was not the greatest a taking directions and so this was making it difficult to get him to finish a section, but after some skill full editing I believe you can’t really tell. Some moments had to have the speed changes to make them flow better also. I created a scene that flows from footage that didn’t link, which I thought was well achieved. Also I liked the shot to the end where once again you don’t see the whole of the woman’s face I think this creates mystery like all femme fatale characters should have. This was a hard to edit because we had quite a bit of footage of this shot because we waited for a could gust of wind and the right positioning to get the perfect shot and when watching it back to footage sort of blends together so it becomes a case of just filtering down and filtering down. I think a lot of the editing comes down to the transitions I used some times the most simple transitions like a fade to black of a dissolve not only look more effective but more professional. This is why I stuck to using to better transitions.