Evidence of editing

In every movie the production phase ends and post production begins. Editing is a part of the post production; it is where people such as Richard Francis Bruce (Editor for the film Se7en) spice up the movie and put everything together in softwares such as Adobe Premier Elements or Adobe After Effects for special effects. I, however, am using Final Cut Pro which has many pros and cons. Most visible is, of course, the simplicity of the program; the simplicity allows new users such as me to learn editing techniques. 

The effect that I used in most of my shots is "Color Correction" as it allows me to change the colours, by increasing or decreasing highlights, shadows and midtones. Also, saturation in my opening sequence is used to create a flashback-like look as the highlights, shadows and midtones are brought down to the lowest(-100%)

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This is what the final editing looks like. The transitions that we used were:"Fade To Color",  "Bloom" and "Flash". Fade to colour is a transition used to create suspense because it gives the audience the feeling that the action is not over, which is exactly what we want to do in the opening sequence. An example of this is the last scene where the killer and main protagonist stand face to face and fade to colour transition is used. It creates an enigma; is the killer still alive? Who will he kill next? 

Some of the audio is disabled as there was a lot of background noise that was unwanted, however the audio clips that we used have key frames in them to take down unwanted noise and keep the wanted sound, such as the scream in audio clip 22.