Experimenting editing

Because we will be doing a discrete opening the editing will be crucial to establish the mood of the film and make it thrilling. We were experimenting some different effects that we could get in our film:

Dragging the same clip on top of each other in the storyline, locking the original clip (the one underneath), then using the razor tool cut its copy into bits and then delete the bits in between. This would give an effect of dysfunction which could be interesting for our discrete opening.

To overlay two shots, we add them one on top of each other in the storyline, and then drag the line down to reduce opacity. As you can see in the following screen shot, the line is in the middle.

The result of overlaying shot would be this:

Following these steps we can get a change in colours giving a psychedelic effect to the video.

This is the result of using the effect 'solarize':

The effect 'Threshold' makes the video black and white with shadows.

This is the result of the effect 'Threshold'. It creates a dark, dramatic mood.

'Radial blur' creates a motion blur, giving a sense of speed, or like a 3D image.

This is the result of 'Radial Blur' effect. I think it will be nice to use it in our discrete opening to show the girl's tormented mind.

The effect 'earthquake' can also be an interesting effect to give to our thriller. It shakes the image, exactly how its name says, it gives an 'earthquake' sense.