Skills Audit: Editing

Editing our title sequence was a very very big job, hours upon hours of editing was needed to create the exact effect that we wanted for our title sequence. I did most, if not all of the editing for our title sequence. I had a lot of clips to play around with. Our title sequence did not have much of a set storyline even though there was the bit of the mysterious man taking out the rubbish and the captured victim being kept somewhere, other than that, our shots could be random and didnt need to make much sense. Our decision to make the clips random was so that it would create confusion and make an ordinary sub-urban area look far from normal and more sinister. We had huge inspiration from Arlington road and we wanted our title sequence to look as succeseful as it did.

I layed clips down about three or four at a time to try put them together and make it flow fom clip to clip. For our opening shot we wanted an establishing shot from the sky coming down looking at the road, after that I just put different clips down in a random order. I slowed most of clips down because I felt that it gave greater detail to what is going on, on the screen, it gives you longer to look at it.

As I put these clips in order I used various video filters to create the effects that distinguished our title sequence from the rest.

here is a list of some of the video filters that I used.

Colour corrector - This was one of the main filters that we used, this enabled us to change the colurs of the clips and we also found out how to colour one specific part of a clip, we used this in most of our shots to make them red and the fence clip was the one where we changed the colour of one bit of the clip.

Invert - This filter was just to make clips negative and we combined this effect with the colour corrector to make the colours alarming and distorted.

Noise - I used the noise filter to add random pixel noise to the clips to give it a distorted effect.

Blink - This filter created the flashing effect on the eye scene.

Timecode Print - We used this filter to create the cctv effect with the woman in the window. to create the cctv effect we also used the noise filter and changed the settings for it to show horizontal lines instead of noise pixels.

All of these video filters had their own settings that I was able to adjust to make the clips look exactly how we wanted them to.

As well as video filters I used video transitions betwen clips.

Dissolve - This transition fades clips into eachother, I used this effect on some of the clips.

Dip to colour dissolve - This transition blends a clip into a colour of choice then into the next clip I used this transition on the puddle clip and one of the fence clips.

Fade in, Fade out - I used this on some the clips to fade clips together, I never used both the fade in and fade out on one clip, I either used fade in or fade out.

Another effect that I used was putting clips on top of each other on the timeline and reducing the opacity of the top clip.

The whole editing process was very time consuming, a lot of time had to be spent on perfecting the effects and making sure that the clips flowed instead of it just looking like a random set of clips put together. A lot of thought was put into to editing this whole title sequence and I had to trial and error different effects to find the right ones that would make our title sequence work.