Planning: initial editing of final edit

Editing our filming

After having found some difficulties arranging when my group would be able to film the main body of our thriller task, we began to film the opening sections of our film. We also began putting together our film company 'adverts'. 

We created the name 'Firewalk Entertainment' for the first film company, and then began editing a short sequence together featuring this name, as like an advert for this film company. We animated a fire stream bursting onto the stream and faded in the title before fading out the whole image. We found this to be very effective and also realistic, as I found through research that often, trailers and small clips introducing a thriller often featured short adverts for film companies who have worked on or produced the thriller.                                   After the 'Firewalk Entertainment' clip we also added in the 'Black Cat Production' title that we had created and designed previously and faded the two clips together, so that after the first title had closed the first one would appear straight away. 

We then began working on editing our first piece of footage that we filmed in the wooded area, our first location. The 'Firewalk Entertainment' fades out very quickly and straight away cuts to the opening sequence of the 'man' running through the wood, with shaky, jolty camera movements to convey this. Whilst editing this, myself and the other members of the group decided to have this sequence in slow motion, with eery suspense building music that we found when played over the movements of the camera, worked really well with the flow of the footage. However, we found that the quality of the footage was very blurry and not of a very high quality, but we had very little time to plan the rest of our final edit so we decided to focus on editing what footage we had together as best we could. For filming, we used a Nikon camera, which we found was very easy to work with and produced good quality footage, if the footage was well lit or the camera was steady, an issue we came across when we started to edit the footage was that we found that the quality of the footage was not as clear on screen as it had been on the camera. Also, we found that if the camera was moved or in the case of our filming, ran with, the footage was very blurry and poor quality.