I think we learnt a lot through making this film opening because it allowed us to do some research into the psychological thriller genre itself and compare different films to each other. You see a lot of the same techniques used in similar films and they each have different purposes. Some films use mainly music to create tension, which is what we did in ours. We included one piece of dialogue but apart from that there was no speaking at all, yet it still had suspense and kept people on the edge of their seats. We became better acquainted with using the cameras and were able to choose some interesting shots by different angles and movements. We even improved our skills with using the Apple Macs and the software included on them. Final Cut Pro was the main program that we used to make our film but we also had to use QuickTime Movie Maker and some MP3 converters so that we could choose our piece of music and convert it into a file so we could use it in Final Cut Pro. I think that we are all more confident using the programs that we had to and the editing process sped up closer to the end. We had to re-film and re-edit a fair amount of shots because not all of them captured successfully which meant that the edits wouldn’t be as smooth.
We decided to include some video filters and transitions with our flashback shots, and we didn’t know how to do this at first. Once we learnt how to do them, we were able to use them throughout the film and even include titles at the beginning.
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