Editing- Ben Brown

As of Friday we managed to finish all the editing of our short film there were some aspecs that we struggled with especially some of the continuity editing, for example in the scene with the two girls at the bench the footage we had would have not of flown together so we added a still shot/point of view shot in between the two clips to make the editing continuous. There were also other parts that i found really hard to edit like when the letter was poster through the letter box it was hard to get the close up to the long shot of the letter falling continuous so that the audience could not be distracted by it. Including the credits which we found particularly hard to place within the film we decided it was better to have the credits alternating between the last few clips of the film so it could build up suspence and keep the audience wondering what was going to happen and as soon as the boy slams the computer the cast credits comes up and the music fades out. In the end we decided for the credits to have a black background with white writing in a font called didot.

We managed to finish off all our transitions today as well from when five years passes from the younger to the older characters we used a dissolve and made it as long as possible to show and make it clear that it was the characters growing older. Also we put in a wipe from the mirror scene to the next scene to show the slight passing of time and explains how he got from one place to the next

we also added in the music sound tracks and the radio station recording that we did. The sound tracks we added in are used as both diegetic and non diegetic sound, like the song playing on the radio is used as diegetic sound and the song playing where Daniel is getting changed in front of the mirror is used at non diegetic sound.

we have just transferred all the footage over into garage band to add in the rest of the sound effects and Foleys that we need which include sounds like typing and background sounds of a TV playing. I find garage band a lot more complicated to use than the editing software like final cut pro and i movie and it takes time to find the sounds that you are looking for.

By the end of Mondays lesson we should have completed our film and we are currently producing our first draft of the film poster than we wish to use and looking for layouts for the film review.