Editing using Adobe Premier

Our first piece of editing in our film beginning is at the beginning, a fade in from black. This is an affective transition to use at the beginning of the film as it introduces the first scene in a smooth way, instead of the shot straight away being there. From looking at many other horror films this technique is clearly used a lot.

This scene also fades in from black as it effectively separates the scene before (the victim and father having conversation in the house) and this one.

Also on the same scene we introduced the opening credits of the film. We introduced these credits here as it doesn't distract the viewer from the beginning of the film, the establishing shot and the conversation setting out what is happening (victim looking for lost cat). For all of the credits we used fade into line so that the credits aren't on screen for too long.

For this scene we used the wipe transition. This is to show a change of location - from where the victim is to where the victims father is. This highlights the fact that the victims father is far away showing clearly he wouldn't be able to save her.

Another wipe is used on the ending of the phone conversation. This is to separate the conversation from the victim character walking away down the stairs(as the shot of the victim on the phone is then followed by her walking away and then a shot of her walking down the bridge.)

In our film we also used the affects 'black and white' and 'old film'. This was to create a CCTV affect as we placed the camera in the corner of the bridge in both of the shots where we included these affects. Also, the 'old film' affect gave a moving feeling to the shot, emphasising the fact that CCTV cameras are constantly moving around capturing action.

At the end of the opening of our film we used text faded in from the black background. This ensures the audience focuses on the text as there is nothing else to be distracted by. The font colour is in red as this represents blood, giving the feeling of the horror genre. This colour also could show anger, which is usually an emotion portrayed in horror films. Also, from looking at many other horror films it was also clear that red is a popular colour to use.