Editing Process (Final Stage)

This week our group has been moving into the final stage of completing and editing our Thriller opening. We filmed this week an extra scene which includes multiple angles to improve the overall quality of our film. The scene will be placed at the beginning of the film as a serious of mysterious shots to build tension and grab the attention of the audience. The storyline behind our thriller is that the Lady In Red is searching to find the murderer of her love interest, on entering the jazz club she sees the killer and precedes to shoot him. However we wanted to convey the reasoning for the killing and thus filmed an extra scene in which only the hands of the woman are seen, picking up and considering a photograph which is entitled "Darling Edward" 1939 , the affectionate term 'darling' connoting their affection - the following shot is of the hands bringing a newspaper into the shot containing the strap line "Wanted... for murder" connoting that the interest has been killed by the man in the accompanying photograph. The next shot is the hands ominously drawing a cross on the 'Wanted mans face.As the opening progresses the Lady In Red recognises the same man from the picture, who she then precedes to shoot. Our aim in filming this extra scene was to clarify this and build suspense when the two characters come face to face later in the clip. Apart from this extra scene which we have edited we will make some minor adjustments to any glitches, especially within the soundtrack before moving on to our evaluations!

The newspaper and photograph props we used required some time and thought, firstly I wanted to make the props so that they would appear to fit our 1930/40s theme therefore for the photograph I found a picture of an old relative and printed it onto white photo paper which I cut down to size to look like an authentic portrait photograph that the main character would be likely to carry with her. Moreover, I wrote 'Darling Edward - 1939' on the bottom of the photograph as I have seen in various photo albums to authentic and personalise the image, moreover this was an effective way of conveying the relationship between The Lady In Red and the man in the photograph. Furthermore, for the newspaper I printed an image of the actor who the lady kills on to photographic paper, I then printed a front cover from a 1940s newspaper to fit our genre and stuck the photograph onto the front cover. To make both props more authentic I decided to age them, I did this by staining the photograph and newspaper with tea bags and coffee which I felt worked very effectively.

The image below is the storyboard that I made for the extra scene that we filmed.