Editing 2

We are still really pleased with the way our film is coming together, we are almost finished with the editing, there a still a few tweeks needed thought, but most of it is tiding the footage up, ensuring the corss cuts are the same length and HD-ing the film.


We have changed the film a fair bit since my last editing blog. We have now incorperating a left-right thing. We have kept the concept of slowy introducing our character, (but increased the speet of the process) and now we thought that the thriller would be more effective if we have one shot where the ballerina is on the left, then one shot where she is on the right.
This makes the piece more interesting, as when the footage stuck in one area it would become a bit boring, so we have now mixed things up a little and it makes the piece come to life more so we are very pleased.


We have now also added the music! Watch the piece with music really adds to the thriller effect. We chose a piece or piano music by Beethoven which we think works really well with the ballet and brings the piece together effectivly.
Here is the updated version of our thriller:

Editing 1

Editing so far has been really enjoyable, its very interesting and exciting watching your footage transform from lots of different clips to one flowing piece, its also exciting to see what we have been working towards all this time finally come together.

So as a group we decided that our piece should show innocence and beauty of the ballerina and the ballet. So the editing plays a huge role in achieving this concept. So far we have created our initial footage to not giving anything away, only showing parts of her costume and her body like hands and feet, we then move into a extreme close up of her face to see the detail on concentration. We then move to regular close up to give a fuller, clearer image and finally a full body shot, we thought this is effective because only showing parts of her body foreshadows later parts of the film and it indulges the audience as they want to see her face, it also slowly introduces our character in a elegant way reflecting the dance.

We thought cross cutting the footage together would be the most appropriate for our thriller, as it is sophisticated, neat and subtle, ensuring that no attention is drawn from the ballerina.

This is what we have created so far:

Font

Choosing the font for our thriller was a fairly basic task as we had a pretty clear idea of what type of font we thought would be effective. After looking at various fonts we finally chose Big Caslon.

'Sealed'

This is a pointed serif font, which is formal and traditional, the pointed element to it foreshadows the idea of danger and violence later on in the film. You often see this style of font on newspapers, books and legal documents, this displays the formal nature of the font. Ballet is a very disciplined and regimented dance and so is this font, it is evenly balanced and symmetrical, so during the title sequence, the font and the footage mirror each other. It also shows the idea of OCD, which seems abnormal to most people, thus gives a thrilling effect.

Another film which uses this type of font is 'Identity':

Identity is a film about people stranded at a desolate Nevada motel during a nasty rainstorm, ten strangers become acquainted with each other when they realise that they're being killed off one by one.

The font is very alike the font we have used, except they have made theirs red, suggesting that the film will be more gory with blood, whereas our font is white to represent the idea of innocence and purity.