After shooting this clip at Wilderness Woods, I and the rest of my team began our allocated hours of editing. For this editing process we utilized the editing software Premiere to recover our footage and cut it down sufficiently.
However, before we was able to do this, we had to insert our SD Card that we used whilst filming the clip and created a folder on the computer that we labelled 'footage'. Once this step was completed, we looked at all of our footage clips and stills to see which ones we wanted to include in our clip and which ones were errors or purely mistakes.
After we had identified our required footage, we dragged each clip down sequentially onto the timeline where our footage could be edited and cut down.
Some of the footage was still muddled inside the timeline so we clicked and dragged each particular clip in to the sufficient place, also another thing that was apparent when the footage was on the timeline, was the fact that our footage was far too long and extensive.
Therefore, taking this into account, we went through each clip and cut the footage to where we thought was best using the scissor tool. After this, our clip seemed to be much better, the right shots, the right length, however we still needed to develop the sound of our clip.
We managed to do this by creating an account on www.freesound.org so that we could utilize sound which is vital in a horror clip. The first sound we used was an 'ambient horror sound' which was approximately 2 minutes long.
We utilized this sound because it lasted for a similar time to the duration of our entire clip and it also sounded eerie and mysterious. The next sound we utilized was a 'spooky violin sound' clip with a gradual crescendo, we discovered the perfect place to put this particular sound (as we were building the suspense when I was about to open the door) in the clip.
Another sound we used was a 1 second 'bang' when the doll was unveiled for the second time to add to the peculiarity. The penultimate sound we used was arguably the most effective, at the time, we wasn't looking for this particular sound, more a short sound effect like the one second 'bang'.
However, we fatefully found a spooky voice whispering "He's behind you", we used this as it sounded as if the doll was actively talking to me in the clip contributing to the verisimilitude.
The last sound we used was an extended 'bang' that lasted 2 seconds when there was a two-shot with the peculiar figure standing behind me with a knife, this was used to emphasize the fact that I was soon to be murdered. For the sound to be placed into our clip, we had to download it and save it as a 'wav' in the 'My Music' folder.
Then, we had to click 'GetMedia' in Premiere and go into the music folder and drag it onto the Audio part of the timeline. After this, we watched our clip back several times to identify where our sounds would fit best. We used the zoom-in tool to make sure that where our sounds start is at the correct exact precise moment. Then our clip was finished and our the finished footage is above on this post and also can be found on Youtube under 'Preliminary Task - Group 9.'
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