Editing - The last few days

 in the last few days of our editing process we mainly focused on the soundtrack, titles, and colouration. One of the main ways that we establish tension in our sequence is our Soundtrack. for the soundtrack we asked a friend of ours (Luke) who takes music tech to compose a soundtrack for us. over the course of a few days we sat with Luke and discussed what we would like to do with the soundtrack. Once we decided on a vibe for the soundtrack we began composing it. the original song that we decided to use for the
soundtrack had to be changed due to copyright, so we went back to the drawing board and chose something different. Luke helped us add dynamics to the sound effects in out sound track and give it an ominous feel at the end with distortion. Our soundtrack builds tension by going from a simple homey jazz piano piece with the light sounds of a ticking clock, to a distorted combination of sounds, and at the end you are left only with the sounds of a clock ticking. The soundtrack establishes tension by going from a comfortable homey piece of music, which tricks the audience into thinking that its a lighthearted family movie, into a distorted collision of sounds that is unpleasant to the ear, as the narrative unravels. The titles were the next thing that we focussed on. For the titles we had to create a list of false names as we weren't encouraged to use our real ones for this project. once we had a list of names we began syncing them up to moments in the sequence. over the editing process we ran into a few errors when creating the titles, in our first draft the titles ran almost all the way through the sequence, which is distracting to the audience, meaning we needed to cut down and re-organize the titles. lastly we looked at the colouration of the sequence. we adjusted the colouration of some of the scenes to give them a dull looking hue to them, to give the audience the impression that they don't live in the most lavish of areas. 

How did we establish tension? in our sequence we decided that we were going to keep it very simple. in the first part of the sequence we showed a father and daughter innocently playing monopoly together and chatting. this gives the impression that this is a family movie, as it is set in a comfortable family home. however, when the father goes to make coffee and burns his hand you can tell there is something off about
the daughter by the blank stare on her face and the uncomfortable distortion that we put in the soundtrack. after the incident the narrative seemingly continues as the father sits down again to play with his daughter. when the camera pans around his back to reveal that there is no daughter there, we see a long shot of him supposedly 'talking to his daughter' while playing the game, and the soundtrack begins to collide more and more, instilling a deep sense of discomfort in the audience. the lack of information about the daughter leaves the audience wanting to know more about what happened, who is he? why did she disappear?.

Some of the things that i think my group and i should reflect on is our camerawork and time management. some of the shots that we did on the day of filming have little wobbles of the camera or tripod in them, which leads to a very shaky shot for us to edit. Due to the order that we filmed the shots in, we ran out of time and energy to film some of the important scenes in the sequence. However, this is nothing that we cant fix with a little more practice and planning beforehand. Overall i am very proud of the work that my group and I did on our opening sequence.