This document discusses various editing techniques used to overcome continuity issues in a film project. Shots filmed at different times of day appeared too different when edited together. To solve this, the editor adjusted color curves, high tones, saturation, and gamma on the lighter shots to make them appear darker, as if filmed at sunset instead of morning. This allowed the shots to transition nicely. Other techniques mentioned include stabilizing shaky camera footage, splitting and reversing a clip to fix a missing reaction shot, creating sound effects in Audacity, and animating title text to appear affected by thunder.

1. Editing
Evidence

2. When watching back a couple of the videos, there The shot were Jack looks back to
were a couple of camera shakes. I therefore Natasha and she is not there was
stabilized the media to try and get rid of the missing. To solve this problem I spit the
camera shakes. This is something I did throughout scene were Jack looks over to see what
editing the whole opening sequence. the noise was, copied that part and
then reversed so it look like he was
looking the other way.

3. Before
Due to conflict in timing schedules, the only time we could
film was early in the morning on one day and late in the
afternoon on another. This meant that there were shots that
were done in the light and others that were done in the dark. After
This meant that when they were edited together, it would
lack in continuity. To over come this, I put a filter over the
videos that were to light to make them look darker. To do this
I adjusted the colour curves of the video and then also
changed the high tones of the video to a more of a red tone
to make it seem like the video was more at sunset then at
early morning when it was actually filmed. Saturation and
gamma were also change to make it darker. This then allowed
for the shots to then transition nicely into each other.

4. I produced the human groan sound effect in the
program Audacity, downloading a human groan
and birds flapping sound effect separately. I then
merged these together and added an echo effect
to make the sound effect feel more creepy.
I was also able to produce a track of music similar
to the Lana Del Ray song that we wanted to use
but the one I made had a quicker tempo more
suitable to the scene.

5. For the beginning of the opening sequence
when the film company name appears I
downloaded a thunder sound effect and
then made it look like the text was effected
by the thunder. To do this, I animated the
text by changing the vertical sync of the text
and various points to make it look like it was
shaking. I then added a flickering effect to
make it look like the text was flickering.

6. This is the final project edited together with all the videos, music,
sound effects and video effects added.