Post Production: Part 2

 This blog post is about the last couple of days of editing our opening sequence.

A decision that we had to make later on within editing, was to take out the whole section where the girl was taking parts out of the car. This was due to the whole final cut was over 2 minutes longer than the maximum length allowed so we had to adapt and take out sure parts of our sequence. This also included the establishing shots we took of the junkyard, as it wasn't 100% needed. 

We created tension by making the camera more shaky and disturbed, we used this to show visible panic from the girl as well as her facial expressions. We also added the motorbike sounds with an automated slow increase in volume to also add more tension, due to the motorbike getting louder and louder.

I feel from our opening sequence our target audience would definitely want to carry on watching due to the immense cliff hanger that the scene ends on, and also due to the rush of the jump scare that has just happened.

For the titles of the sequence, we decided to put our names in the job roles that we decided on, prior shooting, and also the names of people that we thought would be perfect to star in the rest of the film if it was to carry on.

The sound was the part that took the longest as in our sequence there is a lot going on sound wise, as we chose not to include a non diegetic soundtrack. We used many sound effects for example, extra wind, rusty metal squeaking in the background, the motorbike, ripping and tearing of the girls top, doors creaking and squeaking, footsteps, dragging of battle axe on the concrete ground, the axe killing the girl and finally weird ambient sounds through out. These all brought the opening sequence alive as without them is would have no where near as much tension. The motorbike sound effects were the hardest to make sound good as they needed automated volume control, reverb and heavy amounts of panning, all to make it sound as if it was coming from one direction towards the girl.

Overall I absolutely love how the final cut of our opening sequence came out and also loved the whole process of getting it from its original idea to how it is now.