Editing - 25th and 27th

Last lesson we started looking at some of the effects we could use and tested some on our shots like 'ghosting' for example. This was one that we really like because it makes it look really weird and creepy by giving it a shadow of the image thats delayed to the actual action. This looked especially good on the shot of the character rocking back and forth and struggling in a straight jacket because the movement itself is quite disturbing and is even more so with the ghosting effect on it. We also sped this shot up to make it look even more deranged and disorientated and it looked really good so we kept it. Finally we also logged our newest footage and then captured what we wanted and trimmed them up so that they could be re-arranged into a rough order.

Today we decided to sort out our quick fire shots so we copied a couple of shots and took only a second or two from each so that we would have a series of weird images cut in one after another quite quickly because it creates a big build up of tension. These quick fire shots represent all the madness and psycho parts of his life/memory come back and from then making his life no longer normal anymore. 'Se7en' is again a good example of our idea for quick fire shots because it had quite a few shots flash up on screen that aren't the nicest of images and are quickly one after another. However we've got a longer line of them so that the tension is all built up at once.