Firstly, we uploaded our footage to Adobe Premier Pro. This is the editing software we used to produce out final thriller. It took a bit of time to get used to using the software and figuring out how to use all the tools to edit but as we gradually learnt it became easier to build up our sequence. If we went through the editing process again I would research how to use the software and ask people familiar with it questions so our editing process could have been completed quicker. We began to take cut down our footage into different scenes that we put in our storyboard, disregarding any footage that we decided we definitely didn't need. This made it easier to produce our sequence with all the clips that we wanted rather than having to look through all our footage when we moved onto the next scene. As we decided to film a few shots for each scene this helped when putting the sequence together as we could look at which shot we preferred and looked better to fit with the theme we were trying to create - drama and suspense.
After we completed our sequence, we added non-diegetic music from a royalty free website. we also overlay this with the diegetic music in the thriller. This was to add the finishing touches to solidify and bring together the tense atmosphere we were trying to create for our thriller. It worked well with the thriller genre and the personality of the male character who was quite dangerous and mysterious.
For the strangling scene we decided to use slow motion and lower the sound slightly. This was to add effect and drama to the scene and so the audience could focus on the action. The slow motion emphasised the woman's struggle to release herself from the man's grip around her throat but also the force the man is using to push her to the ground. It also helps to identify and make clearer both the characters facial expressions. It helped portray the man to the audience as scarier and angry and also allowed the audience to empathise with the woman and feel sympathy for her because of the shocking, innocent and frightened expressions on her face.
We also decided to add some effects to some of the scenes to make them look bolder and add to the tense and dramatic feel. We did this mostly in the car scenes and a some of the house scenes. We mostly added a lighting effect to the house scenes as the original footage was slightly to dark.
Lastly, we added the credits in and the title at the end. We made the credits appear at certain beats in the sound to make them stand out and create a strong powerful effect, which matched the male characters personality. We had white writing on black background to keep it simple but effective. It also kept with the mise-en-scene of the narrative taking place in the night. The made the title at the end flash between white writing on a black screen and black writing on a white screen. This was to make it bold and eye-catching to the audience and keep with the tense ambience of the narrative.
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