The editing process

Once we had loaded the film onto final cut pro we could then get down to editing. First of all we had to cut the film into the seperate shots, name them and then put them into seperate folders. We then had to decide which shots we wanted and in what order.
We wanted to add an individual style to our peice by having a lighter feel to it at the beginning which we did by encorporating the shots of paper falling against blue sky which has a rather tranquil quality. We then wanted to gradually get onto the more serious shots of James on a building about to jump so the audience only slowly realise that the man is about to commit suicide.
We learnt how to add titles to our opening sequence and then changed the font and colour of the writing in order to fit in with the style and aesthetics of our peice. We decided to make the writing white in order to match up with the paper against the blue sky and keep the whole atmospheric peaceful aspect to the opening. We also learnt how to fade the titles in and out so that they wouldn't seem too blunt for the style of our peice.
In order to keep encorporate the idea of the gradual audience realisation within the sound we decided to make it light at the beginning with bird sounds and choirs which then gradually change to a lower note when it is revealed the man is commiting suicide. Just before the man jumps we decided to stop the choir to build up the tension to a cliamax. We also used city and wind sounds in order to make the illusion that the man was really high up within a city more realistic.