Editing Pt2

This post is a summery on the last part of editing i went through and what exactly i wanted to create through editing. 

Editing Pt2

The first way we created suspense and tension in our opening through editing was by working the lighting we had set up on the day, a bright neon green hue and also by not using any clips that show light form outside the container so it doesn’t destroy the effect. Another moment we enhanced tension was the slow introduction we had for the characters as it cuts to Adams barbed wire hands before we see his face building confusion and worry but Also painting a bad impression on Ali as he is seen walking and turning on his radio unaffected suggesting he is the one that caused this. 

I really feel that the audience with feel a sense of confusing but also interest in this main character that seems so unaffected with what just happened to him as he turns and smiles as it offers a glimpse of his personality and I think the action fans would want to know more about this assassin type character and how he came to be. When it comes to titles we put all of our names once with the directors name twice, at the end and beginning and for the rest we made up like names that we think are interesting but still slightly normal so it isn’t too obvious that we made them up we also created a production company together in order to fill the titles properly. 

We chose coffee house jazz as diegetic sound as it contrast the action going on and create a contrapuntal sound scape. We created the sound effects of a hammer hitting a breaking a foot through the sound effects of a dog eating and a metal hammer which successfully created a gruesome and detailed sound we wanted. We had some problems with sound when it came to on of the actors screaming as it was so distorted and overpowering to the sequence and so we learned how to balance and add reverb to the sound clip to calm it down and add to a more diegetic and natural background. 

Some extra editing choices we had to do was by adding a template graphic black boarders to create a wide screen but this was also very useful in the way that we could hide something in a shot if we still wanted to use it under the border e.g hiding the boom under the border in one of our shots. Overall I feel that what we achieved through editing was exactly what we wanted to capture when filming our sequences especially with the suspenseful and almost extra final shot.