After filming I had many video clips in which I needed to edit and add effects to, to create my thriller. I decided to edit it in the order in which we wanted the clips in the video so the first thing we created was a title of the production company that I had made up called Key Chain Productions. The name was a mix up of my self and my partner's name. We chose a picture of an animated man holding a key from the Internet. To make the image my own I edited it on Adobe Fireworks CS4 to give it a transparent background instead of a white one so that it would transfer easily to the title that I eventually created. After editing the image in Adobe Fireworks I added the image into Adobe Premier Pro CS4. I then added text to the image which was the name of the production company. I gave the text the font, Copperplate Gothic Light and made it a gold colour to give it a professional look.
The first shot I then added after this was the of the antagonist flicking through the pictures of the victims and his victim to be. At the end of the shot it zooms in on the picture of the victim to be. The problem with this was that the closer the zoom got to the picture the more blurred the footage became and so I cut the shot when you can clearly see image of the victim to be but also so that the shot is not too long.
After this I then added in another title enlisting the names of the actors involved in the making of the film. The font we used was Birch Std. This gave a sinister look especially with the bland black and white colours used on it. I also added a shadow on the title. The shadow is a white shadow which adds to the bleak colours used and adds to the sinister look.
The next clip I edited was the clips of the victim to be swinging in the park. I cut it down to not much longer than 10 seconds and then added dissolves to either side of the clip to make the movie run smoothly. Most the other scenes have been edited in the same way by cutting them down and adding dissolves to make the movie run smoothly.
On the last clip I edited it exactly the same way. However, I created the title of the film in the same way as the others but so that it would run over the top of the last clips to really emphasise the title of the film and to give it a ghostly, sinister effect.
For the music I muted all the audio from the footage that we received. I then created music to run over my thriller. I created the music on a piece of software called Cubase. To create the music I listened to the music from other popular thrillers like, Panic Room and Bourne Ultimatum took my inspiration from them and timed to to my own film. After looking at most of these films I realised that most did not have sound other than the music and is why I muted the sound on our movie from the other footage that I collected.
To improve my draft the angle of two shots will have to be changed. The first shot to be changed is the shot of the victim be of the swing and the shot is taken from behind a bush. The problem with the original shot is that the shot is taken from over the hedge so it seems as if the antagonists head would be poking over the hedge and so I will re film the scene so that the angle will seem as if he is hiding behind the hedge. The second shot that needs to be shot is that of the victims legs when she is running. The original shot is too quick and so you cannot see who's legs they are. To change this I will re film this scene and make it so that you can see her legs running off into the distance so that you can definately see that it is her. This changed footage will be edited the same as the original footage was.
