Editing

We started by labelling all the shots and putting them in order.

For this film we did more editing than we did for our prelim. One of the things we are confused about it how to edit a flashback so that it doesn't just look like a sudden change of location. We started by using a soft focus lighting to try and hint to the audience that it is a flashback but it wasn't entirely effective.

To figure out the best way to do this I analysed the Butterfly Effect to see if it gave me any ideas as to how to portray a flashback in a thriller film.

From 0:00-1:16 you can see how the first flashback is done. It makes the scene very shaky before cutting to the past. I don't think this method would help with my film as we are trying to make the flashback scene a dreamlike escape from the rest of it and the shaking is too violent to maintain the soft feel we are going for.
In this you see me and Briony discussing our plans as to how we are going to do our flashback. Briony decided that we should use a cut to black each side of the flashback to signal that we are going into a jump in time. I then had the idea to use a fade transition each side of the flashback to give it the dreamlike feel that we are going for. This would also contrast with the harsh cuts back into the present time. We decided to remove the dialogue in this scene and instead have happy music and background voices to portray the dreamlike state we are trying to create.