Group: Wilderness Woods Film Short

Outlining the process we undertook in Adobe Premiere Elements 9.0.

• Ghosting - to ensure the audience has a visceral experience, and prompt audience engagement - one POV shot has the editing effect - 'Ghosting' - which causes a smearing or blurring visual effect.

• Trim and split clips - to begin with our rushes lasted over 6 minutes, after organising the clips by dragging and dropping onto the timeline - we compressed our footage by trimming the clips; resulting  in a smaller length film.
• Text function - we used the text function to overlay the visuals and insert a title. We also considered colour and font - and chose 'Minion Pro Italics' and a dark red colour to achieve visibility, red is also an example of Horror iconography.
• Blackout - in order to leave the impression upon the audience that the antagonist has passed out; we used a blackout. We recognise the valuable nature of this technique, as it can also reveal a passing in time.
• Continuity - in order to achieve continuity in our shots, we trimmed two clips and placed them together, so that the action began in one camera angle, and was completed in another - this achieved coherency. This is a motivated cut. An example of this is Jack's reaction at 2:31 to 2:33, when his head turns.

 





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• Transition - we used a transition from a 180 pan into another 180 pan; this created a 360 pan, where one character had disappeared in the second half. This gives the implication to the audience that time has passed.