My contribution

Because I worked in a group of 3 which consisted of myself, Louis and Tom, I find it necessary to evidence my own personal input. I was involved in different aspects of the films production. Specifically I was in charge of all of the editing involved with the film and also the acting involved with the film. Despite this I was also involved with the decision making regarding what was going into the film and how it was going to be filmed. With regards to editing I found that in order to follow conventions of our chosen genre I had to create a realistic version of the film which could be perceived as being a genuine real life scenario. In order to accomplish this task, I had to exclude the idea of any major effects added to the film whilst making it still look professional and aesthetically pleasing. The reason behind this is because with the added transitions and the special effects the film looses its level of realism suggesting that also the story might not be as real to the audience. Therefore instead of using transitional effects to create a level of fluency between scenes to get rid of any rigidness, I used cut away shots which allowed transitions between scenes look smooth. This also allowed the film to look more real and still follow genre conventions.

This is an example of where I have altered the number of decibells on the video which changes how loud the sound is for each individual clip. I did this on a number of occasions in order to remove any unwanted background noise such as talking amongst the cinematographer and actors which wasn't part of the films initial dialogue. I did this by adding key frames and changing the number of decibels according to whether I wanted to increase or decrease the sound.

As you can see many of the clips are divided which is evidence to where I have split, trimmed and extended clips in order for the fluency of the film to be improved. This allows the film to also flow smoothly throughout which allows the users to forget that it is film and actually identify the film as reality which consequently follows the genre conventions of creating a realistic portrayal.

As you can see above, I added a transitional effect which is inbuilt into the software, this allowed the last clip to smoothly fade out into blackness. This coincides with the audio which was also altered to smoothly fade out at the same rate as the video which creates a feel of continuity and professionalism.