Construction: Editing Process

Once all the filming had been finished we decided to start filming. This meant we had to import all footage from the camera onto the Mac so we could start editing. For editing we decided to use Adobe Premire Pro CS6. This type of software is particularly good as it allows easy editing and gives a wide range of effects, transitions and other features that allow you to develop footage even more.

VIDEO EDITING

Once we had opened up and started the program, we had to insert all of our footage onto the program. This just meant dragging and dropping all the footage from the camera and putting it into an area on premiere pro, as seen below.

After we had imported all footage we wanted we could start to add them onto the editing reel and put them in the order we wanted. When we were putting them in order we had to cut and edit some of the clips to make sure that it was only what we wanted out of the clip that we put on. For example, there could be a couple of seconds of a clip that we didn't want to have in it so we would trim it to make sure that it adds more and better continuity.

To make sure that the opening was as horror like as possible i looked at changing the colours within each clips, the main effect change within the opening are the titles. As you can see from the images below, the titles have a very yellow/green effect throughout that makes it creepy and spooky. We were inspired to use this type of titles by the film 'Solstice'. We not only took colour inspiration but we also implemented how they had use a mirror effect to make the titles more spooky and quite disturbing.

'The Campout' Opening Titles

'Solstice' Opening Titles

To get these effects we had to look for video effects that allowed me to change the colours and another which would allow me to mirror the clip.

 The different effect options above allowed me to change the colouring within the clips and the mirroring. I changed the input and output levels of black and white to make shadows and dark areas look more bold and dominant within each clip to make it that bit more scary and horror like. This made it much like the Solstice's opening again as they have very dark and dominant sections of there titles.

Another area of the opening i have edited a lot to show darkness within the clip is one of the last ones. This clip really represents a stereotypical villain as they have a weapon and you don't actually see the villain either. These are common horror conventions that you would expect to see within horror films as we found out in our survey.

During this scene I also changed the speed of the clip to make it more tense and add suspension. I did this by slowing down the clip to around 65.3% of what it would of normally been. This slows it down enough for the audience to experience the tension and listen to the suspense which has been built up.