Editing The Black Widow

Now its time to edit our footage. We are going to be use Soundtrack Pro and Final Cut Express

Editing in Final Cut

To create our thriller film the footage was edited using Final Cut Express. This allows us to edit the footage we collected by changing the colouring, length, adding titles etc. The image below shows us in the editing stage of the Black Widow. 

Editing Day to Night






We were unsure on how to change the colouring of the shots for our film so that it went from looking like a nice calm place in the day to a creepy, deserted place no one would dare to go to so late at night. Our solution was to search for a tutorial online to see how other people had made their scenes look like night time. The video about will show you what we found and watched in order to create our dark effect.
Once watching the video through once we then played it along side, pausing it as we did each step to ensure the colouring for the scenes was the same as the next. Bellow you will see one of the shots taken from The Black Widow where the shot was filmed in the day time, but through colour change and setting change on the shot, the night time effect was achieved.

This is the process that we have to go through with all of the shots in the film opening however due to natural light and artificial light, the settings may have to different to that of another shot so it does take time to get the colour correct and precise so that all the scene lighting matches up.

Editing in Soundtrack Pro

The sound is edited separately to the film and added later in final cut. This is where all the music and sound effects are added and edited to create the atmosphere and make the film. Here is a screen shot of us editing some of the music and adjusting the volume of the original sound track. 

Once all the shots are in place and the sound has been edited, the rough cut will of The Black Widow will be ready to be presented to our target audience to see what the think of it.