Editing - Bradley Mills

We used a high angle shot in order to replicate the angle of a 'CCTV' camera, I added a 'Bad TV' effect to create the 'fuzzy' footage seen in the clip, because we wanted the shops CCTV camera quality to be much less advanced than the HD camera that we were using, i also made the clip black and white and took out the sound to create a feeling that it was defiantly a CCTV shot rather than an artistic shot, then i added the finishing touches such as the time and the date on the bottom left hand corner of the screen. To create a feeling that the time at the bottom was active I cut the text about three thirds through and changed the time from 20:01 to 20:02.

For the Bedroom music sequence we did not know which music track we were going to use during shooting, so we decided to film this scene without any diagetic music, but during editing i was able to gain the permission to use any track from the artist 'Cheikh', we decided on a track called 'Lights Please' because we felt it was more uplifting than the other songs, helping the idea of equilibrium at the beginning of our movie.

I edited the scene in Garage band in the final stages of the editing process as a finishing touch, I wanted it to sound to the audience as if the character 'Jack' could hear the music that was playing, I believe I was able to achieve this through dipping the sound down as seen in the image above, when he walks further away from the speakers, such as when he walks into the bathroom, I also edited the song in final cut and added an effect to make the song sound more 'tinny' in order to sound like it was playing through earphones, and added it in to the following scene when we see jack listening to his iPod through earphones.


when we see 'Jack' pick up the Ipod from the speakers i cut out the sound entirely so that i could then have the track with the effect on it start when Jack starts to listen to the music again as he walks downstairs.


We see 'Jack' adjusting something on his Ipod when he is downstairs i then made the volume slightly louder as he did this, to suggest he is able to interact with the music rather than it just being a track added in the editing stage over the top of the image.


As the camera cuts to the police officer outside i dipped the music out completely and brought it back up when the shot returns to jack, the left speaker goes out first when 'Jack' takes out the left headphone first and then the right speaker goes out as he takes the other headphone out, to achieve this effect I had to use two different versions of the track simultaneously one playing solely on the right speaker and one solely on the left and cut one out before the other.