Preliminary Task

Brief
We were asked to make a short film (approx. 1 minute) which included someone walking down a corridor, entering a room, crossing the room and engaging in a conversation. We did not use a corridor as this did not fit our opening so instead we used the river bank. We were also asked to use 'Match on Action', 'Shot Reverse Shot' and the '180° rule' which we included.

Construction
After digging out the outtakes and bloopers from our footage we set about creating our preliminary task. Our filming was fairly fluent which helped when constructing our 1 minute task because it meant there was less editing to do when we brought all the clips together. Our main problem was that we had people in our group talking over the filming without realising. To solve this, we detached the audio from the clip and then trimmed it to so we just had the background noise we wanted and placed it back on the video. We then used this audio over and over again in the opening sequence as it was a continuous sound of water gushing.

We then added non-diegetic background music while Ellen is walking along the riverbank to increase the tension and suspense in this part of the sequence as it seems she is being followed.

We added a video effect called 'Old World' to the clip of the newspaper being tossed across the table which darkened it making it seem dramatic and important and to finish off we added a 'fade to black' transition in the closing sequence as Ed stands up. This makes the viewer wonder what is going to happen next after he says "I think it's time this case was closed" as it is not stated although it insinuates that he is going to do something to close the case.