Editing

Every Monday and Friday our class gets to go to the editing suit to edit our thrillers. This means that we get access to Final Cut Pro which is what we used to edit our preliminary tasks. The program allows us to piece our shots together smoothly, add sound and put credits in.

When we first started the editing process we logged all our shots. Because we only had three different set ups we managed to put the clips together quite smoothly as it only involved piecing them together correctly, this took us quite a few lessons because we had to get to grips with the program.

After we finished putting the shots together we started adding sound. We chose to lay over a couple of Marilyn Monroe’s actual songs to keep it all in the theme of Marilyn. We also found the sound byte of her singing happy birthday to the president and put that over the shot of her singing on the monitor. Also we managed to get hold of an actual radio clip of a presenter reporting her death and we put that sound over the shot of the suspect board. This works well as when the reporter breaks the news of Monroe’s death the shot slowly tracks over the suspect board implying to the audience somebody is investigating her death. Then when the track moves onto the monitor of her in ‘Diamonds are a Girls best friend’ that tune starts playing and the shot transitions into the fifties film set. So we changed the sound in this part the tune sounded like it was on a television and then transitioned into sounding like it was in a big room.

Then once the sound and visual parts were done we started to add in the credits. Because none of us had never done this before it took us quite a while to get the hang of it. When we put in our credits we decided that they shouldn’t be to flashy, this is because our thriller contains a lot of mise en scene so it was not necessary to use flashy titles.