Editing 15/02

  Todays post production consisted of editing the final minute of our experimental film. When planning the film, we felt that our idea would easily fill five minutes, however, when it came to completion, four minutes used all of our footage. Because we were unable to film any more due to the performance studio being unavailable, I needed to think of something that could fill this time. I did not want to repeat any more of the existing footage in the same way as I believed that it would become boring and increasingly unoriginal. To solve this issue, I chose to copy and past the film into a new project, take out all dialogue parts and reverse the whole film and speed it up by 500%. This 'flashing' effect of images makes the audience step back and view the film as it goes back to the start - creating a recurring effect just as the man echoes his movements every night throughout the story of 'The Tell-Tale Heart'.

  We also recorded some extra sounds using the Marantz 600 and a Dynamic Microphone to portray the sounds of the old man being dragged to the floor. I edited these sounds together using Soundtrack Pro. I added some reverb so that the room sounded bigger and also diminished the EQ towards the sounds of the old man 'screaming' and being taken from his bed.