Details of how editing went

In the editing of our project, we found some issues with the footage that we had obtained and found it difficult to create a film with a large amount of variety of shots, whilst keeping a story that was both thrilling and keeps the storyline going. The image below are thumbnails of our finished video in sequence to form the two minute video! We ended up using just the footage from the car scene to create a new storyline which gives off a mysterious scenario.

We managed to get the lighting effect we wanted with this shot similar to those of James Bond and Drive, the lighting expresses the facial expressions and the actions of the protagonist. The medium close ups also capture the surrounding environment. 

This shot took a long time to get right, the angle of the mirror shows the audience the protagonists expression from another point of view. 

We played with different soundtracks for the strangulation scene. The most effective out of these soundtracks we felt was 'Non, je ne regrette rien'. This had the effect of creating an almost comic atmosphere, yet the threat of the protagonist's death is very real. This sense of irony from the major music is an effect that Tarantino uses in Reservoir Dogs and we felt inspired to edit into our film.

This is an example in our editing process of fast-cut editing, we did this to emphasis the danger and violence of the strangulation scene in the film. The conventions of a thriller usually have fast-cut editing in the 'action' scenes of the films and we wanted to use it. This is especially effective when it contrasts with the major tones of the soundtrack. However the diegetic sounds that we decided to include give it a more distinct danger as the audience can also hear the reactions of the protagonist rather than just see them.

This shot was a continuous one-shot, it was difficult to co-ordinate around the body of the protagonist. However when put in the film it proved to be a key shot to link together both the titles and the main storyline of the film. 

We wanted to edit in the names of those in the group with the newspaper article, this use of titles is something that we were interested in incorporating into the film. overall we found the editing process of the project the most enjoyable as we could really see by the end of it the efforts coming together to what we think are great results.