Editing the thriller

Once we had finished filming, we brought the tape back to school and were ready to start editing. We fist had to insert the tape in to computer and open up Adobe Premiere Pro. The first thing to do was capture the footage by recording it. We used a keyboard short cut button 'F5' which captured all the footage at once. Once this had been done all the footage was saved on to the computer, and all we had to do was drag each clip into the side bar ready for us to start editing.
We had learnt to use tools such as the razor tool during our preliminary task which dissected each shot which enabled us to move shots around and put them next to any scene we wanted, as well as delete any unwanted material.
Having been extremely lucky with our sound as the camera mic picked it up very well, we did not have to pre-record the audio and link it up to related shots. Therefore all we had to add was appropriate music. I listened to many heavy orchestral famous compositions however I wasn't satisfied with a specific one, but rather stuck for choice between two completely different tracks. After playing around and exploring with the different features Adobe Premiere offered, I found that you could actually drag both tracks onto the audio line. The result sounded fantastic and the two different tracks sounded marvelous on top of each other.
As we filmed in order and followed our storyboard, matching together each shot for shot was easy and continuity wasn't lost. However, I had to place different transition effects after each shot to create a smooth flow between one scene and the next. Some of these included 'dip to black', 'cross cut' and 'fade'. We also experimented with different effects such as 'ghosting', and although it had a great effect it looked unrealistic.
As we had a list of different titles we had to include in the sequence, we were worried it would effect the audiences view of the action and create an unbalanced feel to it. However, the black titles actually created tension in the thriller and an uncertainty as to what was going to happen next. Titles went as follows:

1. SONY PICTURES
2. FILM FOUR
3. AN A.T.Y PRODUCTION
   
4. THE CARPENTER
5. Psycho -IAN WELKA
   
6. Victim -MATTHEW PERRY FRENER
7. Victim -TALIA WELKA
8. Music -ABIGAIL IPALE
9. set design -YAAKOV TAMIR
10. Producer -STEPHEN SHPIELSTEIN
    
11. Director -PHOENIX WILLIAMS

We decided to have separate black titles rather than an overlay of titles on top of the action. As we only had about 8 minutes of captured film altogether and once taken out doubles of scene, we were left with about 3 minutes, separate black titles was essential to make the sequence appear longer and lengthen everything it to the 2 minute max.
Fonts and Titles:
We picked an old fashioned scary font of white writing to use as it looked effective on the black background. It stood out and looked eerie.
As we were filming and it being Winter time, it began to get dark fairly early and we were concerned it would look unbelievable. Although, we found an effect under 'Brightness & Contrast' where by you alter the colour of the screen to make it appear lighter or darker. We used this in every shot so all of the scenes were the same colour, and it didn't look like we filmed hours apart. We altered it slightly making it darker giving it more tense atmosphere.
It was very important after each change we made to the thriller that we 'Rendered' each section. We did this by pressing the 'enter' button making the footage look sharper and having it at its best quality.