Editing Process #2

Yesterday was a long day. I filmed my entire opening and afterwards I touched up and refined some of the clips before going to bed, but it wasn't much. I mostly just cut out the extra parts of the clips and added a few transitions. Today, I worked more on the editing and I think my film turned out pretty smooth.

Firstly, I added a black screen in between these two clips and make a fade into the bedroom scene. The reason why I made this hard cut to black is because the start of my film builds suspense and as soon as it's getting to the climax, it cuts out. This builds suspense and mystery and leaves the audience with questions. The fade into the next clip is also effective because it transitions from a suspenseful scene into a completely normal setting, a common convention in thriller openings.

After that, I started working on the sound. I looked up some sounds on freesound.org and pixbay.com. I needed specifically police siren sounds since I did not have that in the original video. I had to get 2 different ones because the first 2 shots don't have the sirens while the rest of them do. If I used the same sound for all of them it would have sounded wrong. I found one that I really liked but it was only 3 seconds long so I had to duplicate it and layer it so it would play in a loop. This makes it sound like its one long sound effect when in reality is is 3 separate ones.

Also, I only had one clip with heavy breathing on it and I thought it would be a good addition to the other clips so I extracted the audio from the original clip and duplicated it to match the length of the scene. 

With these additions, the first scene is completely edited and includes all necessary sound effects, transitions, and cuts.

I did not have much free time today to do my homework so I could only get this much editing done, and it also took me really long to find the perfect sound effects for the film. I decided to call it a day after finishing the first scene, and will keep working on the editing for the next few days. 

I plan to be completely done with all the editing by Saturday the 7th so I can have time after that to work on my CCR questions and refine any last touches that I may have missed.