The filming stage has been completed and after we had transferred the footage to the college computers we began editing the sequence together. Firstly we sorted through all the shots that we needed and cut the roughly and dragged them onto the time line. We have had experience with working with Final Cut Pro before so moving onto Adobe Premier was with great ease. We sorted out all the interrogation scene shots first, and begin to edit them down making sure clips did not seem too jumpy or out of place. Everything was going well until the computer we were using was overbooked, so our next stage was to transfer over everything to my computer and use Adobe Premier trail to finish editing the apartment scene.
After we had completed the rough opening sequence it was now time for us to put in the effects we wanted to bring the Film Noir to life and make it look authentic. We simply applied the desaturate effect to all the footage and persisted to play around with the brightness and contrast till we were happy and reached a general positive outcome.
Sound Mixing and Audio
The final stage of editing relied on us to make sure that any diegetic sounds were matched to its action as we cut around and replaced some of it's audio with other scenes audio. The only problem we encountered was the sound volume, which was easily fixable with playing around with the pitch settings once clicked on a selected piece of audio.
Sound Effects
After we had all the audio perfectly matched and in order, we went on to adding the diegetic sound effects coming from inside the frame. We needed a gun shot which was really easy to come across in the sound effects that were offered to us within the college. We wanted really exaggerated echo gun shots so that they gave the impression that they were from the flashback, which would make the film seem more realistic and not cheesy. We also did this with a door, we needed it opening and shutting to emphasize someone had just entered the room (even though we did not film someone entering through a door, we wanted to give the impression that someone had come through). The last piece of added diegetic sound was just outdoor traffic noise from a busy street, to make it sound more like the scene is taking place in a city, and not a quiet abandoned room.
Non Diegetic Score
Finally after we had finished the final edit of the sequence and the sound effects, we could finally progress on adding a sound track, bearing in mind we've based this on 1940s Noir (So that means no updated chart music or anything that will distract the audience away from the film). Me and the sound editor Jonathan listened to a classic selection of Jazz songs in the car whilst trying to imagine if the music would fit our sequence. We finally found two pieces we could use, one for the interrogation and the other for the apartment. The one we used for the interrogation was quite laid back and casual, which set the scene and fitted well with the outside traffic noise. Apartment scene music was more dramatic and higher pitched, to set the tone that something bad is going to happen. Once we had place our selected ripped scores onto our editing timeline, we had to mix them together to make sure that one song didn't suddenly jump to the next, so we faded one out during the dissolve transaction as the other one faded into the scene.
Overall...we managed to come to a complete final edit of our sequence and the sound that went into it, and managed to get the effect we were after which was dramatic and atmospheric. The sequence with the music fitted into the time period we were looking at and after the few stressful days of editing, we finally rendered it and burnt a copy to DVD and screened it to several people.
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