We used Sony Vegas Pro 9 to edit our films as I did not want to spend valuable time working out how to edit on a new programme on the school computers.
I edited the film first in separate scenes so I could get each scene to what I wanted. I split them into the Intro, Luke and Emilie getting ready, Luke leaving the house, Him at work, the Crime Scene, him returning to his office angry and confused and finally the climatic ending scenes.
After working with these we put them together and decided what could get cut as our film was 8 minutes long. We trimmed down the film and in the process lost the introduction with establishing shots of the town the film was set in and other, unnecessary scenes such as Luke shaving.
After we cut our film down to just over 6 minutes, we saved the film to WMV and opened up a new file named EntireFilmAudio.Veg. This would be where we added audio such as music and sound effects to the film. We used fades and blends to make our music tracks calmly and subtly fade in and out of one another to not interrupt the viewing.
In a few scenes people on set laughed during filming and I did not notice this until we had finished filming. One notable instance was in the tunnel where Frisco shouts "Who's there?" and a person laughed down the tunnel. To not break the tension I had to fix this audio so it would not just stop instantly. I took audio from an unused piece of film of Bones running down the tunnel and put it over this piece of audio track so in the film it sounds like Bones is running down the tunnel out of shot, which in the film he is.
After audio was complete I added a few effects into the shots such as the flashback shot.
To add the text, I used the text generator built into the software. This allowed me to move the text into the positions shown in the final film where the text wouldn't be obscured by light and dark areas of the shots.
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