When it comes to editing our thriller, we don't have a lot of class time because there are other media classes who need to use the edit suit too. So, in order to finish our thriller by the deadline we have to book out our set computer and come outside of lesson time. Due to other commitments, we've never been able to book a session that we could all go to however, yesterday Harry and I decided to stay after school for the 7-9pm slot. This was we knew that we would be able to finish our thriller and make the last minuscule changes.
Together we managed to add the credits that we'd designed on his laptop on Final Cut Pro because we had a larger range of options than Adobe Premier Pro like the motion snow effect that we've placed under the title. We had a little difficulty importing them from Harry's laptop because it doesn't have the typical USB port. We decided to move on and finish the import the next day so that he could bring in the correct cable. Fortunately, another student who booked the same time slot had the correct cable and allowed us to use it. This got us back on track and allowed us to cross one more thing off our list.
Whilst Harry was organising the import, I decided that it was finally time to tackle the issue of the ambient sound. In certain clips the diegetic ambient sound of Guildford was rather seamless and wasn't too over powering however in others it was far too loud. We'd focused so much on the continuity of the footage that we hadn't necessarily thought of the importance of the continuity within the sound. I found a piece of ambient sound from one our panning shots that was uninterrupted by dialogue or other unintended chat that I decided to copy and paste under the entirety of our thriller and then later delete the original pieces of ambient sound that was under the majority of the clips. By doing this, it actually became easier to watch our sequence because the ambient sound wasn't over powering and didn't distract from the action. However to make it even more seamless I added a small transitions in all the moments where I'd copied and pasted the sound so that you didn't hear it clip at all. Although the clipping of the sound was only a very small buzz sound that you could only hear if you specifically listened in for it, I wanted to ensure that there were no unnecessary distributions.
After doing this, Harry took over and he edited the volume of some of the dialogue. For example, when Molly states her name at first it was slightly too quiet but when she shouted it it was far too loud. So, he made a small cut in the middle of the sound clip and lowered the volumes on the latter on and increased the volume on the first. Other moments that needed the volumes adjusted slightly were clips of Mike. On the shoot day, when filming most of the shots of Molly, we were quite close to her alloying the Røde directional shot gun microphone that we used to pick up the sound far better than when filming Mike. We were usually placed the camera further away from Mike and simply zoomed in to get the close ups rather than what we did with some of Molly's shots. We would have preferred to get closer but because of all the cars, it was hard to. This meant that we had to deal with slightly quieter sound that was overwhelmed slightly by ambient sound. Harry and I used to various levels of audio to find the right balance and to try and get Mike's dialogue as close to the clarity that we had on Molly's as possible.
By the end of the session we were left with only one other thing to add which we unfortunately forgot about at the time probably because we were tired after our 13 hour school day, was a small piece of audio that I felt should be dubbed over the shot just before Molly turned around. My main motivation for this addition was that at the time, Molly was turning around without being triggered by anything, not even the sound of the car engines. I suggested that we added either something like a gun cock to provoke her or a piece of dialogue. There was one piece of dialogue where Mike said, 'Don't be alarmed' which I thought would work perfectly but I had to leave that in the hands of my group because unfortunately I was absent on the very last editing lesson.
