Editing

When editing our film, we used a software call Adobe Premier Element 7.0 which was the only software we had access to and also knew how to work. We had previously used this software during our preliminary task, therefore when it came to the editing of our opening scene, we had some idea of how to use this effectively. 
Below is a screen shot of the software that we are using.  

We started by uploading the clips off the camcorder into a folder. We had filmed more clips than we actually needed (15 clips) therefore as a group we filtered through the clips, picking out the ones that we thought looked right and were most appropriate for what we needed.

This was when we came across our first difficulty, when we uploaded our clips they were very very dark which was surprising as we were able to see them on the camcorder and they were just how we wanted it. We had to explore premier element to find how we could make the shots lighter so that they could be seen clearly. 


We had to go onto image control to adjust the brightness, contrast and saturation of the image.


This is how the clip looked before we adjusted the image, as you can see it was extremely dark, and almost nothing can be seen. 

Here is a screen shot, of how we adjusted the lighting to make it a suitable and clear image. 


Once we had made all the shots a suitable brightness, we started to put them together and in the right order. We used 'Split clip' to separate some of the clips. We didn't want them running continually, because we wanted flashes of other clips in between them. We had to use split clip so that when it did return back to a certain part, it would be in the same place that i left off. for example, we have the little girl walking barefoot through the woods, then have a few other clips in between like the man in the woods, a fuzzy screen, the little girl walking down the stairs etc, but when it returns to the little girl walking barefoot, we wanted it to start where we had previously stopped. Therefore 'Split Clip' came in very useful. 
The symbol of the scissors is the way 
that we seperated the clips. 

One of the clips that we wanted within our opening scene was a fuzzy screen, which we thought would add to the fear of the audience. It has the idea of the unknown, and leave them wondering what is going to come onto the screen next. 
By doing this, we imported a blank screen and added the effect 'Noise' to make the clip fuzzy, we then adjusted the lighting. 

Once we had arranged our clips in the correct order, we wanted to use an effect which would make the clips run much more smoothly when they went from one to the other, after trying a variety of effects we decided that Cross Dissolve effect gave us the best outcome. 

Once we had managed to put our film together we then found that we could not add titles to our film therefore we had to go to the ICT office to see if we could resolve this problem. Unfortunately we were unable to.