Filming and editing

Filming - My partner and I planned that we would get our filming done in one day, however it took longer than we had originally thought, we filmed everything but the conversation scene after school on one day and the next day we put it on the mac computer, after sorting through the parts we needed and deleting the filming we didnt need or want we realised that needed to explain the story more, so we thought up of having a conversation about the 'missing girl', we made a script and soon after we filmed it. This scene makes the storyline much clearer so we were happy how it turned out.

Editing - I had filmed a lot of footage, so we had a lot to pick from and there after, edit. After we had watched through all of the footage, we made joint decisions on what to delete and what to include, once we had our final sections we began editing it down properly to make the film make sense! We started with putting 'fade to black' transactions between 3 sections of the girl running (beginning), during each part when we see the girls back, we hear a foot scuff, which causes her to look keep looking round. I decided to experiment with a 'slow motion' edit on the last section of the running which turned out really well so we decided to keep it as it made the clip more interesting. We then had to edit the conversation, this took the most amount of time to edit as I had filmed it as a 'two shot', switching to over the shoulder of each character when the other was talking, and also having a shot with the both of them in. We had to edit the sections so that the conversation flowed which I think we did well. With the section of the hands rushing through photographs of girls, we decided to put a 'fade to white' between each picture then the last picture fades in from black and fades out to black, this one is also in slow motion, these 3 things on this last picture were so that the audience understood that this was the girl the stalker was after this time. The scene of looking throught the Costa window we thought needed it to be a bit more dramatic and for it to build tension, I had watched the film opening of 'SE7EN' and had seen nice editing which was sort of like a jump back and replayed on a section, I did this when  we first see the girl walking past the window, which turned out nicely, so my partner and I decided this part needed another edit the same as this, so I edited one into the end of this section. It was quite tricky to do as the timing has to be exactly the same and it had to look like we did it on purpose, which I think we pulled off. The last section didnt need much editing as it was very short and it was good how it was filmed, the only thing we did was make the volume quieter on it so the drum beat could be heard easier. We decided to put the title of the film at the end of the film opening because the audience will focus more on the actual filming rather than be thinking of the title throughout, also then the filming before the title builds up to it.