Unit 8
Film Editing
This section starts with my video essay on how to cut a film. It shows different methods of editing shot transitions which I then used as inspiration and a guide on how to cut my film
'Copy Cat'. The effects I used in my film were match cut, smash cut, cut on action, and a fade to black at the end. This video essay shows the main cuts and examples in famous movies, as well as some of my own examples at the end.
I then went onto editing my own short horror film called 'Copy Cat'. The storyline is of a girl arriving at an Air B&B to get ready for a date. Where she encounters some strange happenings, which she cannot explain and she realises too late that there is a creature in the house which wants to take over her life and become her. Although it was shot as a group of 6 individuals, we would all follow the same storyboard but ultimately we would all have our own edit and ideas.