Cutting: After I put together all of the clips and placed them in order for the rough cut, I began to trim them so that they aligned and flowed together. I used iMovie to easily trim each clip and make it to where they followed a continuity editing format. Our goal is to make each clip flow well with the others so that the storyline is understandable and can be followed. A problem I ran into is that two of the clips kind of seem jumpy as if they’re missing a shot in between. The clip where Evelyn starts her car and sees the demon in her backup camera quickly cuts to another clip of her looking back at the camera and noticing that it’s gone. This is an example of a jump cut, and it kind of feels out of place. Hannah and I may decide to film something to go in between these two shots to ensure that it all comes together smoothly. Other than that one hiccup, cutting the clips has been a successful task.
Transitions: Most of our clips work best without any transitions because each clip occurs right after the other, so having a transition would make it seem like time has passed between each shot and we don’t want that. The only area I added a couple transitions to is at the very beginning of the film. The movie starts off with a black screen and fades out to the establishing shot of the abandoned building. I felt that starting with a black screen looked more professional and didn’t make the movie seem like it had an abrupt beginning. I also added iMovie’s “cross dissolve” transition between the establishing shot and the scene at the cult to kind of make it look less choppy. The cross dissolve transition is pretty much just a fade in / fade out, and I felt that it made the beginning have a sort of slower pace, which eventually speeds up as the tension builds. This is typical for horror movies to have a somewhat ‘normal’ pace at the beginning, which eventually increases once the thrill is introduced. It all adds to the suspense and fear that horror films like ours want to entail from our audiences.
Hear No Evil 