Titles and additional edits

After finalising the prior edits we made a start on the more detailed edits. Firstly, we came across a tool that gave a zoom in effect, however zooming in very minimally and smoothly - something which may have been hard to achieve if we had tried it on the hand held cameras. We used this tool on our final clip of Evie screaming, the very subtle zoom added a sense of tension and allowed the audience to get a close up view of the look of terror on her face. I feel this was a very effective decision as although it is not massively obvious, it subliminally may have an effect on the audience.

Next, we chose to insert all of our titles. As you may have seen in one of my previous posts, the titles are meant to go in a certain order and this is something we tried to follow up within our own opening; however we did not follow it exactly seeing as ours is only a short opening and doesn't have as many people involved in it as a real film would. We started with the name of the studio(s) and then moved onto the production companies. Instead of putting the producers and directors names next, we decided to put the 'starring' titles instead. We felt this was more appropriate for our target audience who would be very intrigued to see who was in the film. We followed this on with the producers and directors names alongside things like who was in charge of the music - of course we incorporated our own names into this part. Lastly, we inserted the film title. This is quite uncommon within thriller openings however, we felt it fit best with our opening and may even put the audience on edge a little as they may not be expecting it to be there. We did try inserting it in several other parts of the opening yet we felt it made the opening look disorganised and it also messed with our sound. 

We decided to leave out some of the titles that are seen in real film openings such as 'Production Designer' as we didnt actually have a proper set therefore including it may look unrealistic. We may have also struggled to fit it all in with the opening only being allowed to be a maximum of 2 minutes.