Editing Session Seven

When I looked back at the sound we had edited in the previous session I decided to start thinking about the very end of the sequence. At the time the sequence was in an order so that the male walked through the door, the female turned around, the male stood still and the female spoke. This then cut to a black screen for two seconds before showing the title. The sound was currently overlapping the dialogue and it all finished in sync with then end of that clip. when I watched it back i realised that you could barely hear the dialogue over the sound effects. I tried turning the volume down on all the clips however then the desired effect of increasing volume as a way of increasing tension wasn't effective so I decided to cut the volume of the sound effects before the dialogue.

However, when I looked at where the sound could finish before the dialogue, there was no appropriate place to stop it so I tried changing the order of the clips. I changed the clips so that the female turned around, the male walked through the door, the female spoke and the male stood still. This made more sense as it means the last thing the audience see is a long shot of the male looking directly at the camera. We also slowed this clip down to extend how long the audience had to look at him to make them feel uncomfortable. This seemed more sensible as we could build the sound effects up and cut  them off at the end of the ale walking through the door using the females dialogue as the climax.

After changing the order of the clips it meant there was a silence over the clip of the male stood still staring at the camera. This is because we had cut the sound effects before we had previously planned so there was now nothing to replace it. Therefore, i searched for a 'rise' sound effect to add on the top of that as a secondary climax which finished before the title. Instead of having silence over the title i also decided to add a faint heartbeat over the top and fade it out to create a sound bridge.