15/4/11

Now that we have the downloaded footage of Scarlett's filming on the mac's, we started editing together the end of our opening and with the many different shots filmed by Scarlett we are able to finish our horror opening. We edited the scenes of Jamie walking into the kitchen and getting the knife out of the draw. Scarlett thought it would be a good idea to add scenes of Jamie walking down the street with the knife and having a fade out at the end of the footage. When we had finished the editing, we added the title of the film in the middle of the opening to create more tension. We used the font 'Cracked' for the title to make it look more like a horror film because it looks scary. We also brought each word of 'Revenge Is Near' up one by one, over a crashing sound to make it sound scary. We made the titles come up as we placed another piece of music on after the song 'Loveletters' to help build more tension. I think this makes the opening much more effective. We found a copyright free sound of a mobile phone to go over the scene of Jamie recieving Scarlett's text. We added many effects to the cross dissolve effect we used to create a blurry image which shows Scarlett, this shows that Jamie is thinking of Scarlett while reaching for the knife. This is one of my favourite parts of the opening, as it really captures your attention to what is going to happen next.