The Final Cut

Our Final Cut:


We made several changes from the rough cut to the final cut. The main thing we had to change was how long our media text was, in the rough cut it is 2:10 this was 10 seconds over our target time. We managed to cut down the time in the final cut to exactly 2:00. We moved the films title sequence from the front to the back of the extract, we did this because we felt that the opening seconds didn't have enough action in and would have already turned the audience off.

We made several changes to the murder/serial killer sequences. Firstly we changed them to night time, using editing software, then secondly to black and white. We felt this created several good effects, it made the scenes appear more darker like they were originally intended to be. The black and white also creates an interesting effect, it adds emphasis to what is happening in the text forcing the audience to take notice of it. We have added the sound effect to the text. In the opening few scenes you can hear a storm, this creates a very dark atmosphere which is the effect we were looking for. The sound effect of the alarm clock has also been added. Background music is also playing over the detective scenes as we felt they contained less action than the opening few.

If we could change anything in the production it would be the some of the continuity errors. The two biggest errors were when the serial killer is stabbing the victim the blade changes hands. The other is also during one of the serial killer scenes, during the knife scraping Ellen's handbag appears out of nowhere. We tried to correct this in editing as it appear in two shots. Once of them we could the other we were less successful so the handbag remains.

Overall we were are very happy with our final production, we think we worked well as a group - communicating properly and sharing and improving ideas for the storyline, storyboard camera angles and in editing.