Behind The Scenes: Editing

Our editing took up the most amount of time, this was because when we went through each part of our filming we did, we noticed things that didn't quite fit together properly, so we had to go back and film extra bits to add in. 

In the beginning, our film once we'd edited it all together, only came to 1 minute 45 seconds and it was pretty boring as there was nothing that built up to the ending. So we decided to film how each character ended up there. Firstly we filmed how the mistress got kidnapped and we edited that in with the shots of her tied up, then we did the same with how the husband got kidnapped. 

A screen shot of how we added parts in. 

When I made the opening credits the first time, the actual credits took up 25 seconds of the film, and they were on a black screen. Which got me thinking, if they were going to take that much time, then maybe we could use that time for something that helps to develop our plot line. As I previously mentioned, I then decided it would be a good time to introduce the female character and her way of thinking. I hoped this would attract the audiences attention immediately and want to make sure that they weren't bored, so we decided to go with this instead. 

It took us a little while to get our heads around how iMovie worked, but after a while we did. We were able to use the little bits to make our movie the best it could be. For example,we layered the sounds on top of each other, and took away the audio on the actual footage to make it sound more realistic, as seen below. 

I spent a lot of time, editing on my own as one of the girls in the group went on holiday towards the end of the project being finished. I found this extremely time consuming, but it also fills me with extreme pride to know what I am capable of. We also, used windows movie maker to create the end section, see below, and the opening credits so we could use the font we wanted and have the background we wanted.