CONSTRUCTION: Editing

For our film, we decided to show off our editing expertise and show some of our abilities to use green screens and isolate certain colours in order to bring attention to them. We also voiced over all the dialogue caught on the day in order to make sure that the audio was crystal clear. We decided to take ideas from one of our case studies Roma (2018) We made our film monochrome in order to fit the stereotype of the Film Noir genre we were trying to conform to. I decided to take the lead role in the editing of our film as I was more experienced in editing and I enjoy it. We used Adobe Premiere Pro in order to edit our film to our success.

One of the main things we wanted to accomplish in our film was the continuity of our film to be spotless. We feel as though by carefully looking through the frames of our film to make sure that the flow of the film was not interrupted was key to our film. We also wanted to show our expertise by separating the flame from the lighter and make it stand out in the scene. We did this in Premiere Pro using Lumetri Colour to allow us to select the colour scheme that we wanted to stand out ahead of the monochrome filter. This meant creating another film layer within the edit and highlighting the colour we wanted in that scene. We then removed the other colours that we didn't want in order to have the flame on a clear background to move in sync with the flame in the original. We thought that this effect would help bring a unique aspect to our film and also breaks genre conventions for our genre of Film Noir.

We decided to add a voice over of Big Boss to the end of the film in order to add suspense to the end of the film. This is crucial to the opening of a film as it helps to draw in the audience and makes them wonder what is to happen next in the film. We decided to add a sinister end to the film, suggesting that Detective Swanson is in big trouble and there are bigger criminals in the world that he must fight to take down. We thought by overlaying the logo to our film afterwards would follow the conventions of film openings and would tie up the opening very well. We added some flair to the end title by making the two assets appear separately from each other. I am very happy with the editing of our film.