Editing

Once the filming was finally finished it was time to put it all together in editing.

 The first thing we done was put all the scenes together on a timeline so we could watch through it and just get a basic idea of what the film was going to look like. After that was done we then had to sort out effects and transitions. One of the main effects we used was the ghost trails effect on all the point of view shots. This showed very well what the world looks like when you are drunk so we thought it would be nice to add in the protagonist point of view shots as he is supposedly drunk during the sequence. To break our two scenes apart from indoors to outdoors we used gradual fading out then fading back in a couple of seconds later to the outdoor scene.

One of the main effects we used in editing was the black and white effect. This is a typical convention from early film noir and suited our piece perfectly. It also had a added benefit of making everything naturally darker as due to lighting issues we had to film in the day light.

Once the general effects and transitions had been sorted it was time for sound. We found this quite difficult as everything we tried seemed to distract from the storyline and felt out of place while the general silence was quite effective. To solve this we got some people in our target audience range to watch the film and comment on what they felt about it. After the tests we decided it would be better to leave music and backing tracks out of the film as the silence was fairly effective for creating the mood we wanted.