Editing Blog: The Final Cut

  

  Hello Cambridge! We have now finished editing our final task. We added some shots to the video of the bookshelves speeding by. We felt that this helps add to the eeriness of the video and to make the cuts less jarring for the viewer. It also makes it seem like something is potentially following her, or that she is being chased. This chaser may be her own psyche or her past actions that are haunting her and causing her to go crazy. This could be a very interesting thing to explore in the rest of the film if we were to continue past the opening sequence. The sudden motion also builds tension and interest for the viewer to hook them in and keep them watching. This is similar to the shaky cam in horror movies and actions scenes where the lack of orientation builds a sense of unease and fear. 

    We also put the titles animated onto the screen instead of having them just on paper. We weren't able to just have the names on paper, especially since it could be fairly difficult to see them. Particularly, it was difficult to read my name on the books we had set up. We were worried that it would make the movie look a bit weird to have them both, but it actually looked pretty good. We chose a good font and it matched the creepy atmosphere we were aiming for. We had at first wanted to have the text animated Scott Pilgrim style where they moved around a lot, which I thought looked very good, but other people disagreed and thought it looked too playful for our serious film. So, we just had the names appear around the books in a simpler, more fitting style.

    Finally, we had to finish deciding where to put some scenes, which wouldn't be too difficult. The biggest problem was ordering the scenes to make the main character's descent into madness seem gradual. We couldn't have her start out crying and shaking, she had to end up like that. However, I think we did a good job of telling the story we wanted to tell.