Editing
After recording everything and ensuring that we have everything ready for our short film, we began importing the clips and editing it in a video editing program. I decided to use Adobe After Effects as it allows me to freely edit the film and manipulate the clips to my liking. I did however have the option to edit the film on premiere pro (which some of our group members did) as it allowed them to edit similarly to After Effects but with simplified tools and options that would give them a simple edit for the final product.
Because I decided to use After Effects, I had a wide range of editing tools to help me ensure that the final edit will turn out exactly how the short film was envisioned at the start. Starting off simple, I imported and arranged all the clips that are going to be included in the film into the timeline. I cut and cropped the clips accordingly and began the more complex edits afterwards. The final edit is 3 minutes and 4 seconds long.
0:00:03:39 - A text effect was used here to not only establish where the location is, but to also establish the genre and conventions of the film: a typewriter font was used here to show what kind of area the detectives are in (a work environment fitting for crime investigators). The typewriter font also tells the viewers that the film is set in an older time to now. The effect used here was to make the text appear as if it was being typed in real time. There is a typewriter sound effect played throughout the duration of the text being displayed on screen, along with the sound that plays after a line has finished on a typewriter. When this plays, the text flashes red, again, establishing the genre and foreshadowing that something bad could happen later in the film.
0:01:22:04 - Here, 2 clips from 2 different times were used. We did this to show a flashback to the scene of the crime (showing how as the detectives walk to the scene of the crime, the audience watches the crime happen from the perspective of the flashback at the same time). The first clip, as mentioned, shows the 2 detectives walking to the scene of the crime. They walk behind a tree, and the clip of the victim is played. To differentiate between the present and past, the scene of the victim had blur effects and ringing sound effects to show that it had already happened.
0:00:10:25 - The lighting was played around with at this timecode until the end result was something that we liked: In the end, it turned out to be very subtle, but it was effective in the sense of portraying a film that contains a crime scene with 2 detectives investigating it.
0:01:04:00 - At this timecode, a transition between scenes is played. This was done through the use of the missing posters (one from the warehouse and the other in the forest). To achieve this successfully, we took several shots from directly in front of the missing posters. the position of these posters were then edited to align with each other correctly using the position tool. Ensuring that the transition between scenes is smooth, there was a brief and subtle zoom in transition between the clips.
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