Editing

Since we went out and did a re-shoot we now have to work on the re-edit. In our second draft we agreed as a team that we thought there were a few too many fades in between cuts. This time we are going to need to do some more jump cuts and try some different transitions to create more of a pace as the scene in the second draft seemed very slow and this did not cause tension as we want to. We've now started use cuts to the room where the torture victims are, so when the protagonist gets up and starts walking it cuts to the garage showing the victims current state as the protagonist approaches them. We've done these sections in with added effects such as black and white toggle, Gaussian blurs, find edges and the brightness and contrast sliders and have used these effects for each cut and each transition to the the separate room. The use of the black and white filter was an idea that we have had since the beginning and we are really happy that we have kept this plan throughout our coursework. The black and white is useful to us as its a connotation that the room shown in black and white is a dark and dangerous place that is separated from the safe colourful rest of the house. At first we were worried that this would look like a flash back opposed to something happening in a different room parallel two the main scene, but after showing a few people they assured us that they understood what was happening.