Editting - 14th March

Today, we editted more of our footage together for a further hour. We discussed what slide transition to enter when our flashback occurs. This was because we wanted to make it clear to the audience that it goes back in time. As a group, we decided on a "fade in fade out dissolve". This faded out the blur of the extreme close up of the eye into black, and faded in again on the new shot (the flashback). We then decided to have cross cutting shots, alternating between the figure walking towards the outside front window, and Claire and Emma on facebook inside the house. We thought this added tension to the film as the audience can see the figure approaching, whereas the characters cannot. However, we came across a slight problem with this piece of footage. At the end of the piece, there was a slightly jolting zoom, which looked unprofessional. To overcome this, we created three freeze frames that worked just as well as a zoom, and accompanied with the right soundtrack, will add to the tense feel to suit the horror genre.