Editing.

When we started editing we had a plan of how it was all going to look with the slight change to the storyboard with the additional chase scene added. BUT, as we continued to edit we decided that the opening sequence wasn't up to it's full potential. So as a group we sat down and discussed what our next plan of action should be. We all agreed that the storyline/plot had to change therefore going against our original storyboard, however, we all agreed that it would be for the best. At first as a group we thought that we could have the opening sequence edited so that it was a mix matched idea and that the audience saw random clips of the girl being chased, but when we came round to editing it like this it didn't work, therefore, not giving us the effect we wanted. That's when we sat down and had a talk with our media teacher and we came back to the original idea but add in a lot more pace, so we started off with the girl in the park but took out a lot of the shots we took of the past victims and we also edited the girl so she slowed down when she was swinging on the swing. We also decided that we should make the beginning seem like a memory so we made it "sepia" and added grain to it. Then with the chase seen we played around with many different effects the best effect we had was to just leave it running so the audience knew who was who and what was going on, but the only problem we had with this was that it was way to long and boring. This is when we started overlapping clips and two clips were shown in one so the time was not only cut down but it also gave it a better effect and made it seem a lot more interesting.
Another reason we decided to cancel out a lot of the different, abnormal characters in our opening sequence was not only because we changed our minds on the editing but when we did watch it with them in, it didn't make sense. It made sense to us as we created the idea and we had all the background information but the audience who would be watching wouldn't have that so we thought it would be for the best.
The first idea we had when we started editing was that the film was going to be in black and white and all you could see was the red of the girls dress (like our researched film Schindler's list), but we asked someone who helps us in media and he said that it would talk along time, and this just wasn't good for us as we had a deadline and it was getting close. So that's when we came up with the idea of playing around with different effects and it was also when we found the "sepia" effect with grain on the top which was really affective.
The programe we used for editing, was sony vegas. The screen that was shown whilst editing was this..

This programme allowed us to edit in the way we wanted, it allowed us to slow down certain clips, speed others up. It also allowed us to change the colouring of the film with a click of a button which was very handy.

This was our original edit, however once we uploaded it onto a social networking site (facebook) people said that we should change the part whre the girl in singing onto the bridge so the music was still playing over and wasn't faded out totally.

This was the second edit, we decided to change it after we uploaded our original up onto a social networking site (facebook) to see what responces people had for us, as shown above. As group w much prefered this edit, it was something we discussed to start with but we weren't that sure about it so we left it, however, when we got feedback from people saying the would think it would be better if we had the music playing over the top it made us think that we should do it.