Editing

There are two main types of editing: "Continuity editing" and "Parallel editing". Continuity editing is used by most film makers today. This type of editing makes all the footage flow in a natural way that makes sense, to make it more realistic and engaging for the target audience. This is extremely important especially when the pure footage of a scene, or even an entire film would not make much sense without the use of editing. The reason it is called continuity editing is because of its job to make all the footage flow in a continuous way. This type of editing can be achieved using a number of techniques.
For example, diegetic sound is sound that comes from within the narrative world if a film. Continuous diegetic sound helps to smooth temporally questionable cuts by overlapping the shots. The Match on action technique can preserve temporal continuity where there is a uniform, unrepeated physical motion or change within a passage. A match on action is when some action occurring before the temporally questionable cut is picked up where the cut left it by the shot immediately following. For example, a shot of someone throwing a ball can be edited to show two different views, while at the same time maintaining continuity by being sire that the second shot shows the arm of the subject in the same stage of its motion as it was left when cutting from the first shot.
"Parallel editing" is the type of editing that alternates shots of two or more areas of action occurring in two different places, usually simultaneously, that often run together later in the narrative, but does not have to in order for it to be considered as parallel editing. This can be achieved by simply filming the two events and editing it so they are one after the other. Other techniques, like a sound bridge can help connect these two scenes.

After filming the footage needed for our main task (which we called "The Carpenter"), we started to edit, which can be considered to be the most important step of producing our introductory thriller sequence. As the entire sequence was only one scene long, we had to use continuity editing as there was no other scene to connect this to if we were to use parallel editing.
Firstly, we had to upload the footage onto Adobe Premiere, the name of the software used, and then we had to name all the clips that we filmed on site. After that, we had to delete all the big chunks of footage that we did not want. These parts of the editing, in my opinion, were the easiest parts of the editing process because the margin of proximity was not small, and we were just able to take out much larger bits of footage compared to much smaller parts that we would realise should be taken out later. During the filming we made a five second gap between each clip so it would be easier for us to edit and so that we would not accidentally delete any important or useful bits that we wanted to keep.
In order to do this, we had to learn to use the software properly. We learned how to use it with the help of Mr. Yadgar as well as our own experimenting and improvisation.
After deleting the big parts we did not want, we concentrated on adding special effects. Adobe Premiere allowed us to use a wide range of different special effects for our thriller sequence, but the ones we used most were as follows:
1. Fading of the screen-to make the picture on screen more dull for an added scary effect.
2. Cross dissolve-to make the picture on screen "dissolve" or disintegrate into the next clip.
3. Dip to black-to temporally fade out so we would be able to put up our titles.