I added many visual effects and visual aspects to my film including the title, which appeared on the screen and slid across the screen slowly. I was able to get this effect through entering a title sequence and adding text. I chose a white colour and shadows around the text, because it is eerie and links to the theme of the film. I chose to put this title in front of the forest scene at the beginning to add variety and build up tension and intrigue.
All the flashback scenes were in black and white, but for this specific scene I wanted the red ribbon to show through, because its relevant to the narrative and links to the next scene. I was able to do this by applying the effect, then creating a clipping shape and inverting the effect so instead of the black and white only being visible in the shape, the black and white effect was everywhere apart from the shape. This wasn't perfect as it didn't always line up with the bow and sometimes went out of shot, but it mostly worked and was successful up to a point. It also showed slight technical ability to create such an effect.
In this scene I used the blur effect to make this clip slightly out of focus, this was to add visual variety and was to make you feel empathy for the protagonist and mimic the confusion she was feeling during the scene. I tweaked the blur settings to make it less obvious, because it initially was too distracting.
Charlotte added credits at the end, using the title sequence and rolling. She then tweaked the rolling title settings to make sure the credits started off screen and ended off screen, so they span across the whole screen. First she created a text box and chose a bold, easy to read text and capitalised it as it made it easier to read. Then she listed off all the character names and jobs. She then copied the text box and pasted it and then inverted the direction so that the two text boxes lined up, she then replaced all the text with the people that were responsible for each role. She then made the first text red to make it contrast to the other text, so the two text boxes could easily be separated. She wanted the credits on a black background so the text was the most important aspect on it.
I used many transitions in the course of my editing including; film dissolve, cross dissolve, addictive dissolve and dip to black. Addictive dissolve was used for the scenes were transitioning into the flashbacks so they appeared to flash before the scene and therefore replicating a flashback. I used a mixture of film and cross dissolve for the rest of the scenes, because they allowed the film to flow easily and also create a visual eeriness that added to the build up of tension. I used the dissolve transition the most because it allowed the film to flow easily and contributed to the genre and theme of the film and it wasn't as obvious as some of the other transitioning effects. Also on some of the transitions I extended or decreased the time of the transition, depending on whether I wanted more or less of the following scene.
For the title sequence Charlotte changed all the font and visual settings to make it suit the background and theme and genre of the film. She changed the font to 'Photographs' as it is a bold and easy to read font. She changed the kerning to 3.0 and the tracking to 8.0. She made sure the title was central and the right size so it wouldn't take over the screen, but also wasn't too small to notice.
She then followed to create a shadow around the text to create intrigue and mystery, as well as visual interest. The colour of the shadow was black as well as having 80% opacity and an angle of 15 degrees. The distance of the shadow was changed to 28.0 because she wanted at least a little separation from the text and the shadow, the size of the shadow being 6.0 and the spread being 39.0. The spread was important combined with the opacity, because the spread could be increased to make it appear more as a shadow and the opacity turned down so it was less obvious.
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