Final Cut and Editing Changes

After another showing of our film opening to the class, we told that our two minutes was more similar to the visual style of a trailer, than a film opening, as it was entirely composed with disjointed footage that had no real body or storyline; though the various shots of Paige, (the actor playing Red), were a good way of representing her schizophrenic mind state, it did not present the audience with any real flavour of what the film opening was going to lead in to for the main film.

As a way of fixing this, Amber decided to go out with Paige in Thundridge to film some shots that would cause our two minutes to appear more like a film opening that was sure to lead into a main plot.

Below is our Final Cut film opening:

In order to further reflect Red's unstable mind set whilst simultaenously giving the audience an idea of what the film will entail, we used the effect of blurring the camera, as well as the editing transition, fade to white in order to visually represent Red's flash backs of when she was not possessed by Red.

The use of the voiceover has been used again at the end of the film opening; as Red falls over into the red cloak, the wolf, (Red's other personality) speaks to her; 'now get up; we've got work to do'; this leaves the audience with a feeling of unease and anticipation for what this 'work' will involve, and whether it is something that Red will end regretting. This simple rounding off of the film opening enables the audience to feel enticed to watch the rest of the film.

We used framing to further accentuated the Wolf's power over Red, as we have positioned the red cloak to the right of the screen, with Red looking up at the part of it that is out of shot; Red is sitting down, and therefore is instantly more vulnerable; the end of the film opening unites the multiple ideas of Red having multiple personalities as the last shot is of Red, and the Wolf with the red cloak, where Red is looking up at the powerful Wolf.