Post-Production: Editing

In this blog it consists of a journey throughout our editing process in which Tisha did most of the editing work but she asked the other group members opinion on what could be improved in the scene. The Blog itself and pictures was done by Tisha

Editing

Throughout this editing process, there were many changes that were done which were changed based on the overall look of how the video looked and some were changed based on audience feedback that we got including our teachers suggestions. 

This is the first draft that we did before getting feedback from the audience and our teacher. After showing this

video to them, there was a lot of feedback that opened our eyes to new perspectives. The feedback that we got was:

• extend the introduction, to make it more interesting and doesn’t jump straight to the main event / problem

• add more music to create suspense; such as during the drug scene, fight scene with mom, and ending

• Make some scene look more intense and to create a feeling that can increase the sense of personal to the audience

• Adding music in the introduction in order to make create the scene as well before starting the scene

• Add more scene in the party to make the movie more interesting and creates curiosity for the audience 

After all of this feedback, I started to get on editing and see if I was able to reach audience expectations. 

Problem 1: Drug Scene 

In one of the scenes, we can see the drugging takes place. However, we noticed that the lighting of the drugging shot is the same as the rest of the party. This might make the drugging shot too similar with the rest, making it blend in.

With this new change it brings emphasis to this shot and shows its significance and danger. We made the

lighting more low-key by adjusting the color settings such as the exposure. The low-key lighting differs this

shot from the rest and adds some suspense. 

Problem 2: Opening Scene 

For the opening scene, I created two different example of scene. Where the difference is the timing when the first opening credits should pop up. 

(Scene 1 example 1)

We can see in the first example, the opening credits of the character starring comes straight into the movie.

This may seem too fast and the duration was a bit too fast as well, which it hard for the audience to read the

names.

(Scene 1 example 2)

In the 2nd example we can see that the opening credits come a bit after, which they have a much longer

duration but still was a bit too fast. 

After all these examples and several feedbacks later, I change the opening credits scene to show the first

character name a scene later after the movie credits. This allows to create curiosity for the audience who

will be appearing in the movie from the opening credits scene. 

Problem 3: Room to party

In this scene we can see that the main character comes out of the room then jumps straight to the party,

overtime this looks like the character’s house and the party are located at the same place. I did not want it

to be like that, so In between the scene where she rushes out of the room to the party. I added a car that was

trying to park to indicate to people that the main character left the house to actually go to the party as this

was shot outside of the school. 

Problem 4: Make up continuity 

This is the make up continuity error, at first it was too long which is why I cut it to make it short and it

feels the scene became fast. With this fast paced it helps in leading to the climax and it builds suspense to

the audience. 

Opening Sound

From the first draft of the video, the opening of the movie had no sound which felt empty with the sudden

jump into the scene. Which is why I edited to add the song to be the intro, but with a twist of adding a

distortion to the music. This allows the audience to feel the feeling before going into the scene.

As the music was party music, this creates the atmosphere of the party. 

Tension build up to fight scene

Before adding this tension music, when the music cuts off then the character turns around it wasn’t giving

the feeling of the jump that every thriller would have. I think that by having that tension music builds up

and overlays with the music being played it makes the scene feel more intense with the amount of sounds

that can be heard all at once. 

Problem 5: drug scene 

The drug scene that can be seen here is that I added a tension sound in order to emphasize and make the

audience focus on the cup. With this tension itself, not just by emphasising but it can also make the audience

start guessing on what's gonna happen next. This becomes a hermeneutic code to make the story more interesting. 

Final product test: 

(#1)

This was the final product test, where we showed it to our teacher in which there were several other thingsneeded to be added and changed in order to create a more appealing result. 

(#2)

After all of the changes that we did, this was the result of the changes that were given from the first final

product test. Even though the changes weren’t really noticeable, it helps in creating the scene to be more

lively and the audience can feel the feeling that we are trying to give to them. 

This is the first draft of the audio for the opening, where the markers can be seen as blue represent

when the beat drops. This helps in cutting each part based on the beat drops in order to make it more lively

and builds up tension to every beat drop. 

Problem 6

From the two images, we can see the different type of fonts that were use as the opening credits, as

well as the size of each font are different. At the end we decided to use the one on the left that uses the

typewriter font. This font was much simpler and it wasn’t similar to the title that we had. 

Overall from this whole editing process, there were many changes that were done and it creates this better result from the very first result before feedback was given. From this, it is better to hear from other people's opinions which could help in seeing things in a different way in order to create a better product. 

Self Reflection: As I was doing most of the editing in this project, I say this was very stressful but it was a fun experience to do. This whole editing had many problems but going through it step by step i learn to improve my problem solving skills and be able to create this product. At first it was hard for me to listen to feedback as I usually would stick with what I think is best, but because of this project I learn that listening to other people's perspective really helps in creating a better result.