29th April - Editing

Yesterday Shelley, Neelam and myself completed our final piece. Ernest had made us 5 pieces of music and we chose the best one. It really goes with our piece well.

For our effects we added "black and white" and "aged film" onto the shots where the girl (I) am dreaming to make a clear distinction between the two times. We also changed the contrast of the clip where the girl is fidgeting in her bed. It made it go completely black when the lights goes off, and go a redish colour when it turned on. This represents the pain she is feeling within her dream. We also soften some of the shots because they were very dark and it lightened them up abit more. The last shot was also edited by changeing the contrast and we chose to make it light so give it a ghostly effect.

The first shot was a long shot. This was kind of our establishing shot to show the audience where the girl is. We could of used the front of the house but it wouldnt of looked very good. We then have a exteame close up of the eye moving around. It shows she is disturbed in her sleep as her own eyes are moving as she dreams. We then go to a midshot and see that she is holding her doll close to her. This shows she needs comforting and that she has a tight bond with the doll.

The shot of the dolls show her obsession for them. We later see they are on her bed so they are acutally her own dolls affecting her mind in her dreams. Maybe the dolls affect her mind in real life??

We used another long shot of the girl turning to show the whole of her body going crazy. This is where we see the are dolls on her bed. It shows her frustration and discomfort the dream is giving her.

A shot of the girls reflection in a mirror with smeared makeup is very disturbing. It shows she sees herself differently when she looks at herself. The makeup is really bad showing there is something wrong with her. Her head is tilted to give more of a disturbed look also.

We used the clip of the eye again but this time we put a closeup of my face after it to create kind of a grpahic match. The eye is moving and the close up my eye also moves giving. I like this part because we have just seen an eye, the audience is automaticly draw to the eyes on the closeup.

I jump up just on the beat of the music. We have a credit to seperate it with the clip where I get out of bed. The music goes well with this because as I jump up on the beat, its just the end of that sequence and then the music gets faster as i get up.

We used a disolve to link the shot of the girl getting out of the bed and then sitting on the floor. It was just to show there was a little bit of time where she did sit down and she didnt just magicly appear there. For this we used a high angle shot to give the represent that she isn't incontrol of herself and her mind. It then has a straight cut to her reflection. She is holding the doll. This is where we begin to see the dolls are affecting her mind; she dreams about them and even when awake, she sees herself holding her favourite doll in her reflection.

We cut down the music a little because at this point it then got alot faster and we needed it do die down a little. It goes back to the beat it started off with and there is another graphic match. This time it is more distinct. We have the natural face and then the made-up face. We have a voice over saying Alice that sounds really good!!!

[However, when doing the voice over and playing it, we did not hear the background noise. I uploaded it to youtube and relised that there is alot of background noise :( ]