We got our shots by going through the rush tape and picking out parts which we wanted to use and we would get these shots and drag them into a log bin, we made a studio bin where we dragged all the shots we needed which we took in the studio and also a location bin where we dragged the shots we needed at the butchers so that it was more organized. We chose these shots as they were from the storyboard which we needed to follow. We put the shots we needed from the location bin first and cut them to how much of the shot we needed and then we did the studio bin footage. We had to make sure that there was good continuity within the shots which made it flow better, this is where we had some difficulties. The main problem we found with the shots was the length, such as one part when we wanted to show some gruesome shots in quick cuts but it made it look like we were rushing so we had to alter the speed in the shots to make it work.
After we did the shots we started on sound and the problems we encountered was that there was people talking in the background and also there was our photographer in the background so you could hear her taking pictures which we needed to cover up by music and object sounds (diegetic sounds) such as the bang of the meat cleaver chopping up the meat or picking up a knife, which we found using soundtrack pro. We had a problem finding the sound for picking up the knife as there was no sound for it in either programmes apart from one which sounded more like a sword. The reason for adding the diegetic sounds was to build tension and to shock the audience. Using diegetic sounds also adds impact to the thriller. We found some good eerie music to put in the background and we emphasized it more when he was putting the poison in to show that it was bad. At the end of our thriller when we put our title of our thriller ("Rancid") we added a bang sound to end it so it would shock the audience and add the impact of the title as it was in a big font to emphasise the fear/sinester mood of our thriller.
We had lessons assigned just for editing which was a great help as the whole group would be there so we could decide everything together. We also came up to the edit suite in any free time we could to speed the editing process up.
The last thing we needed to do with editing our thriller was the titles/credits. We decided to do the basics and we decided where to put them and when. We found out how to make the titles bigger/smaller such as the first title is "lionsgate film represents..." but because Lionsgate is more important than represents it is bigger then represents is smaller underneath it. This also makes it more interesting than just having the titles the same. We did this with all our titles to emphasise the more important part of the title by making it bigger, such as our names so the audience will see them more as they stand out. For our actors we just wrote their names in a big font so that they were noticed and there was no need for a smaller font underneath as they are already well known actors so the audience should already know their role in our thriller. We also added some special effects for our titles to again make it more interesting which was fading it in and out. This was easy to do and it looked good. The last title we did was our name of the thriller ("Rancid"). "Rancid" did not need to be faded as it was big enough to attract attension and we did this title at the end of the thriller with a black background and white writing to emphasise the mood of our thriller.
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