Editing

Editing and transitional devices

Main article: Film editing

• A Roll
• B Roll
• Cross cutting
• Cutaway
• Dissolve
• Establishing shot
• Fast cutting
• Flashback
• Insert
• Jump cut
• Keying
• L cut ("Split edit")
• Master shot
• Match cut
• Montage
• Point of view shot
• Screen direction
• Sequence shot
• Smash cut
• Slow cutting
• Split screen
• SMPTE time code
• Shot reverse shot
• Talking head
• Wipe

Lighting is also influential for editing, for example when the film is at the stage of equilibrium the lighting will most likely be high key, whereas when there is disequilibrium the lighting is more than likely to be low key. Also the use of lighting can present a character as good or bad; the protagonist would probably be lit in high key and the antagonist in low key.

SHOOTING SCRIPT
THE STORY LINE (2 MINUTE FILM)
SCENE1:Peyton wakes up in an unknown place (abandoned factory) tied and trapped with weapons surrounding her, also the dead bodies of her mother, best friend and ex-fling. She attempts to remember how she got there and how she became trapped, the idea is her ex-boyfriend did it, in a act of revenge for not staying faithful to him, (ex-fling: because he was the one she cheated on him with, mother: because she didn't approve of him, best friend: to hurt her). However the flashbacks prove disturbing material as it shows herself killing them, and tying herself up. She tries to believe her ex-boyfriend did it, however the graphic images stay fixed in her mind.
SCENE2:Adam wakes up in bed, he goes to pick up his phone as he has a text from Peyton; “I’m sorry”. He rushes to get changed to go see her, as he picks up his jeans a key falls out of the pocket with a label attached to it reading “unit 2, redbrook industrial estate”. He turns up to the address to open the shutters to find the horrific incident, Peyton struggles and panics at the sight of him.
BLACK OUT.

PD – Peyton Davis
AZ – Adam Zuback
CW – Carl Walker
AW – Adele Woodhams
VD – Valerie Davis

RUNNING ORDER
Interior – Warehouse
SHOT 1- extreme close up PD eyes opening
SHOT 2- slow zoom out to show full expression on her face – mid shot
SHOT 3- long shot of the interior of the location showing her there with bodies surrounding her
SHOT 4- shot reverse shot – back to extreme close up of eyes
Exterior – Woods - Night
SHOT 5- cut shot to flashback – long shot of PD & AZ
SHOT 6- close up of AZ
Interior - Warehouse
SHOT 7- cut shot to reality – extreme close up PD eyes – eye line match
SHOT 8- low angle shot – mid shot to show the dead body of CW
SHOT 9- low angle shot – mid shot to show normal body of CW GRAPHIC MATCH TO SHOT 8
SHOT 10- low angle shot – mid shot to show the dead body of CW
SHOT 11- mid shot of PD
Interior - Bedroom
SHOT 12 - cut shot to flash back – mid shot of PD & CW sat on bed
SHOT 13- mid close up of PD
SHOT 14- mid close up of CW
Interior - Warehouse
SHOT 15- cut shot to reality –extreme close up CW dead face
SHOT 16- mid shot of PD
SHOT 17- low angle shot – mid shot to show dead body of AW
SHOT 18- low angle shot – mid shot to show normal body of AW GRAPHIC MATCH TO SHOT 17
SHOT 19- low angle shot – mid shot to show dead body of AW
SHOT 20- mid close up of PD
Exterior – Park - Day
SHOT 21- cut shot to flash back – mid shot of PD & AW sat on swings
SHOT 22- mid close up of PD
SHOT 23- close up of AW
SHOT 24- close up of PD
Interior - Warehouse
SHOT 25- cut shot to reality – extreme close up AW dead faceSHOT 26- mid shot of PD
SHOT 27- low angle shot – mid shot to show dead body of VD
SHOT 28- low angle shot – mid shot to show normal body of VD GRAPHIC MATCH TO SHOT 27
SHOT 29- low angle shot – mid shot to show dead body of VD
SHOT 30- close up of PD
Interior - Kitchen
SHOT 31- cut shot to flashback – mid shot of VD
SHOT 32- mid close up of PD
SHOT 33- close up of VD
SHOT 34- close up of PD
Interior - Warehouse
SHOT 35- cut shot to reality – close up of PD GRAPHIC MATCH TO SHOT 34
SHOT 36- quick zoom out to long shot of PD
-Title sequence-
Interior - Bedroom
SHOT 37- extreme close up of phone
SHOT 38 - close up of AZ
SHOT 39 - extreme close up of phone
SHOT 40- long shot of AZ getting out of bed
SHOT 41- mid long shot of AZ picking up jeans
SHOT 42- close up of key that falls out of jeans
SHOT 43 - mid shot of AZ noticing key
SHOT 44- long shot of AZ picking up key
SHOT 45- extreme close up of tag on key
SHOT 46- follow action of key thrown on bed
SHOT 47- long shot of AZ standing up
SHOT 48- close up of AZ picking up key
SHOT 49- long shot of AZ leaving room – pan
SHOT 50- Long shot of closing door
Exterior – Warehouse - Day
SHOT 51- extreme long shot of car pulling up outside warehouse
SHOT 52- shot of AZ getting out of car
SHOT 53 - Close up of AZ hand closing door
Interior – Warehouse
SHOT 54 - Long shot of warehouse door opening
SHOT 55- Shot of interior – PD in centre of shot
SHOT 56- close up of AZ expression
SHOT 57- long shot of PD
SHOT 58- quick zoom to PD eyes

In the first two minutes of this film:
Shots- 58 shots of with a number of different characters in, maximum in a shot will be four characters. Shots will mainly be filmed in warehouse; other scenes are kitchen, park, Adams bedroom and Peyton’s bedroom. Shots ware most commonly long shots but others are used frequently too.

Location- 6 different locations (mainly warehouse)

Editing- fast editing which builds suspense, light transition on main character.

Characters- introduce main characters. Peyton, Adam. Then other characters are Adele, Carl,

Sound- dialogue, back ground music during title sequence, all diagetic.

Title sequence- still pictures of etched writing on surfaces/chalk on floor with text flickering over the top of it. Text includes the names of the actors, creators, editors etc.

More prop ideas

Here are a few more prop options. Props are very important and can make our short preview more realistic and also add to the theme of the production. eg. if we were to do a american styled film. Wearing American clothes with American styled props can add to the effect, and capture the audiences attention .



Ideas

I have been thinking about the way I would like to present the opening sequence of the film.

- I don't want to try and tell the story too quickly.

- I want the opening sequence to appear interesting and make the audience want to carry on watching.

I plan to do this by:

* Not plowing straight into the story and dialogue.

* By setting the scene and make the audiences minds work.

* Also by not making the story clear this can add a little twist and make the sequence interesting as the unexpected can happen.

*Using a fast edited opening sequence with dim lighting and flashes of light this will make the genre clear (Thriller). Hopefully making the scene appear scary and interesting.

*In the open sequence I feel using little dialogue will again add to the genre as using good camera shots and edits this will be enough to appeal to most people.

The Vulnerability Factor

This image at first appears normal but when you look again, all is not what it seems. We would like to use this kind of imagery in the opening sequence. We could flash an image of what seems normal such as a church in the nice daylight but then quickly flash back to the image in the night when it looks scary and uninviting. This is questioning what seems normal and sane to the audience.

The Vulnerability Factor

Using images that have someone vulnerable in them appeals to the audience, as they automatically feel attached to them and are on their side. This makes the audience want to watch to ensure the vulnerable person is ok. Children are often used as the more innocent they appear the more scary something can appear to be.

Treatment- 2 minute film

This was my orginal idea..
Programme: The Class of 96'
Duration: 2 minutes approx. (Opening sequence)
Suggested release for Halloween holidays, appropriate theme relating to time of release, mainly late showings at cinemas. This will help set the mood of the film, Releasing the film at Halloween will help the film ratings as at Halloween time people want to go to the cinema to see something different and something that will give them a fright, for instance on February the 14 (Valentines day) people want to see romantic films.
Audience:
- Thriller movie lovers
- 15-25 age category
- No gender target
- Interest in the supernatural

Synopsis:
The Opening Sequence is what either catches an audience or loses them so we want the opening sequence as interesting and imaginative as possible. In the opening sequence we don't want to try and tell the whole story, we just want to give the audience an incite on whats to come and also introducing the stars that play in the film with the opening credits. The actors names can be included in the opening sequence by animation or by using quick editing and flashing lights this way the theme of the film is carried out throughout.
In the opening sequence I think it is important to introduce or ensure that the main character within the film is seen. This way they can become familiar with the characters.  In the opening sequence I want it to become apparent that all is not what it should be. We will show a student moving into their new university and the process of moving in such as collecting your room key. Looking at your room for the first time, queuing up for your timetable. Just normal new "school" things. Although using normal camera shots mixed up quick edits and flashes of darkness and bright lights this will give the impression that all is not right. From the first 2 minutes of the film it will become clear that the university is very old and hasn't been used for the last 15 years as odd things began to happen the last time it was open. This then keeps the audience interested and enthusiastic to continue with the film. Flashing from bad to good images adds to the tension of the film.
The opening sequence will continue showing the young new student finding their way around the college Although everything that appears normal such as when the student is given their timetable the camera will zoom in and will flicker onto a image that seems random. The opening sequence will end with the student on the computer and the rest of the film will begin.

Suggested elements:
1) Montage and flashbacks to the days when the building was used as a former mental institution for the criminally insane.
2) First person narrative voice over.

we then decided as a gropu to change the name of the sequence and alos a few aspects to improve and keep the sequnce upbeat and full of suspense.

Image Ideas

To make our opening sequence more intriguing and scary we plan to take a normal situation such as moving to uni and make the "normal" things happening around our main characters true meaning come out.

For instance the opening of a door unexpectedly is often shrugged off, but watching this film the character feels the need to forget about this is a definite no no as weird things continue to happen.

Above there are two pictures of doors one appear to look normal and the other looks spooky and unapproachable, by showing an image of what appears to be a normal opening door, and then during the film flashing up an image of a scary door the audience will want to no more about what is lurking behind the door, this keeps the audience interested.

Image Ideas

Another spooky situation during the opening sequence.
Books have a lot of meaning, sometime hidden meanings and when a particular book just happen to fall off the shelf. Again not all is what it seems. A number of things happen leading up to the truth been revealed.

Sixth Sense Analysis

The Trailer First begins with a quick edit of a busy chaotic street, with lots of police around, a close up of a police man lighting a fire thrower immediately catches your attention and you want to know more. This shows the audience that the film is full of drama. Soon after the trailer begins a voice of a young boy can be heard and this makes the scene feel more vunerrable as the soft tone of the boys voice grabs you and makes you listen. The Boy is having a conversation with his mom, explaining that he can see whats happened in the accident and that a lady has broken her back,
The woman looks in disbelief creating drama and interest.
The trailer then moves on and to a series of short clips edited together to create a creepy impression and a feeling of the unknown. This keeps the audience on edge and glued to the screen. It shows a mysterious red balloon floating towards the sky and the young boy searching up the stairs. The colour tonality is sepia and dull and this adds to the eerie-ness. You can see the shadow of the boy on the stairs which keeps the audience guessing if he's alone? The short fast edited clips are flashed from 1 clip to another; the transition from edit to edit is similar to a camera flash, blacking out and flashes another clip up, this demonstrates the change of scene or location. (This is similar to the strobe lighting transitions in the opening credits to the film Se7en. This seems to be a common feature of ghost films, as it scares the audience and draws them in.)The sound of a heart beating intensely adds to the tension and builds up interest making the audience want to continue to watch it. By suddenly stopping this makes you stop and think whats next this really creates a scary moment as everything for a second is quiet until,the boy screams and breaks the silence as he sees a ghost. The trailer doesn’t hide what the film is about and it is clear what the story line is and makes the audience want to watch it.

Script

Int. Warehouse

A bright light turns on, Peyton is tied up she slowly opens her eyes, surrounding her are 3 dead bodies.

Peyton

(heavy breathing and panicking)


EXT. WOOD - night

A blurred flashback, Peyton being dragged through a dreary wood by adam

Peyton

NO ADAM NO! i thought you loved me!

Adam

i did, Peyton, i did.


INT. WAREHOUSE

Peyton struggles as she realises the bodies surrounding her are those of her loved ones. Glances at the nearest body.

Peyton

(distress, heavy breathing)

CARL!

INT. PEYTONS BEDROOM

Peyton and Carl are sat on Peyton's bed.

PEYTON

But Carl, Adam can never find out

Carl

this can be something just between me and you

INT. WAREHOUSE

Peyton is still tied up and glancing rapidly around the warehouse. Noticing the next body.

Peyton

(distress)

ADELE!

INT. EMPTY CLASSROOM

Peyton and Adele are sat on a table.

ADELE

how could you!?

peyton

i dont know Adele it just happened!

Adele

i cant believe you cheated on Adam

INT. WAREHOUSE

Peyton still struggles, then notices her dead mother (the last body)

Peyton

OH NO, MUM!

INT. KITCHEN

The kettle boils and the fog steams up a glass kitchen unit window, Peyton is sat down, whilst her mother stands with her arms folded.

Valerie

how long do you expect this childish relationship to last?

Peyton

why won't you just let me be happy for once mum

Valerie

it wont last forever Peyton, Adam is not right for you.

INT. WAREHOUSE

Peyton still struggles.

peyton

(screams)


INT. ADAM'S BEDROOM

Wakes up to a text from Peyton, saying 'i'm sorry' jumps out of bed to grab his jeans, however a key falls out of his pocket with an address attached to it. Quickly dashes out of room.

EXT. Warehouse

Adam walks towards the warehouse and the shutter opens.

ADAM

what the..

PEYTON

(screaming)


THE END.

Video Questionnaire

2 MINUTE TREATMENT

Genre: Psychological Horror
Key Demographic: Rebels
Target Audience: ages from 15-25, male and female, people interested in horror films such as Psycho, Hide and Seek, Saw etc
BBFC rating: 15 due to horror, such as corpses, blood, gore and people tied down, and imitable behaviour such as tieing people down.

Storyline

Protagonist: Peyton Davis
Antagonist: Peyton Davis*Split personality, unaware of what she becomes.
Ex-boyfriend: Adam Zuback
Ex-"fling": Carl Walker
Mother: Valery Davis
Best friend: Adele Woodhams

Setting/Location
“unknown” place to the protagonist (work factory)
Bedroom
Industrial estate
Surrounding roads

STORYSCENE1:

PD wakes up in an unknown place (abandoned factory) tied and trapped with weapons surrounding her, also the dead bodies of her mother, best friend and ex-fling. She attempts to remember how she got there and how she became trapped, the idea is her ex-boyfriend did it, in a act of revenge for not staying faithful to him, (ex-fling: because he was the one she cheated on him with, mother:because she didn't approve of him, best friend:to hurt her). However the flashbacks prove disturbing material as it shows herself killing them, and tying herself up. She tries to believe her ex-boyfriend did it, however the graphic images stay fixed in her mind.

SCENE2:

Adam wakes up in bed, he goes to pick up his phone as he has a text from Peyton; “im sorry”.He rushes to get changed to go see her, as he picks up his jeans a key falls out of the pocket with a label attatched to it reading “unit 2, redbrook industrial estate”. He turns up to the address to open the shutters to find the horrific incident, Peyton struggles and panics at the sight of him.

BLACK OUT.

90 MINUTE TREATMENT

90 MINUTE TREATMENT
Genre: Psycological Horror
Key Demoggraphic: Rebels
Target Audience: ages from 15-25, male and female, people interested in horror films such as Psycho, Hide and Seek, Saw etc
BBFC rating: 15 due to horror, such as corpses, blood, gore and people tied down, and imitable behaviour such as tieing people down.

Storyline

Protagonist: Peyton Davis
Antagonist: Peyton Davis*Split personality, unaware of what she becomes.
Ex-boyfriend: Adam Zuback
Ex-"fling": Carl Walker
Mother: Valery Davis
Best friend: Adele Woodhams

Setting/Location
“unknown” place to the protagonist (work factory)
Bedroom
Industrial estate
Surrounding roads


A girl wakes up in an abandoned factory trapped and surrounded by the massacred bodies of her loved ones. She is unaware of how she’s got there – yet the fixed idea that her ex-boyfriend has put her there is playing on her mind.
The story starts going back to the beginning in a attempt to re-live her previous motions to discover how she got there and most of all who is the murderer and is she next?
The story is a almost like a diary extract in which you see Peyton living her life as “normal” such as – going to college, socialising with friends, family, and more importantly how she sees herself. Peyton thinks she’s a normal teenage girl, has the traumas of life as it is i.e. splitting from her boyfriend, falling out with friends, arguments with her mother. However Peyton only sees her life from her perspective and sees herself as the victim – yet when she gets mad she becomes a different person, a mad, angry girl who will stop at nothing to get what she wants and she doesn’t care who she hurts along the way. The scary thing is Peyton is un-aware of what she becomes.
The twist to the story is that Peyton has created the massacre herself, she is the murderer and has done it all as an attempt to set her ex-boyfriend up for the harsh breakup of their relationship. – That’s where the beginning part of the film is re-introduced – the ending of the film shows that Peyton has in fact got schitzophrenia. However the scene changes from (because in the scene where she is tied to a chair in the abandoned factory) to a shot of her sat in a straight jacket in a chair, in a physiatric hospital and the scene which has just been shown was a flashback of her reliving the moment to how she got herself in a physiatric hospital – however the question is, is she actually in a hospital or is that her imagination?