Visual Editing Explanation

Visual Editing Explanation 

 

To Introduce the Short film, we started off with with a title that sets the scene of our short film.

We used 'fade to colour' so that the title smoothly appears onto the screen and it is satisfying for viewers to watch as it appears onto the screen instead of it just coming onto the screen. 

On the subtext, we spilt the clip in half and coloured it red. After doing this, we used a dissolve effect to this text so it would smoothly turn into red. We did this to emphasize the importance of this word on the screen and make it stand out to the viewers as the short film being set in the lockdown plays a huge part in our short film. The red text also feels unsettling and scary, making it seem like something bad is going to happen during the short film. 

In horror movies, they're usually dark and gritty. Darkness is commonly interpreted as something as mysterious and creepy, as anything could be lurking in the darkness that could pose as a threat to the main character(s). To make the atmosphere feel unsettling to viewers we used a vignette We also used colour correct to make the clip even darker and to make the scene look more darker and threatening to the viewers connoting impending doom. 

We used a static transition to catch viewers by surprise and catch them off guard. We used this static transition to cut out what the main character was going to say. We cut it out with this transition to make it seem like the Unknown Caller was working behind the scenes to cut the main character off. We also did this to emphasize the importance of what the main character was about to say, and as it was on a Zoom Call it would seem like the video was buffering to the viewers.

To make it seem like it was glitching out and buffering on the call, we added the 'earthquake' effect to make it seem like it was glitching, we also added a vignette effect to make it darker on the screen. We also added a RGB colour effect on the screen to emphasize the glitching. We did this to keep the viewer's attention on the screen and get them wondering why it could possibly be glitching out.