Editing On Final Cut Pro

After finished with Pre-production and Production of our opening , comes the Post Production. This is usually the trickiest part of creating a media product as it has a huge impact in the work after the video has been captured and finished filming. This is now the part when we edit our thriller opening, which can include adding graphics along with the images, music, colour, correlation and special effects.

Now getting to the actual thriller opening 'Manor Way' , we used the pro editor Final Cut Pro.

We used different a few filters in order for the shots to have similarity with each other. by giving them an even tone in colour and lighting. The effects used are dark in order to make this clip as mysterious as possible and to match the nature of a thriller, based on a thriller conventions. For the shots transitions we used fade, in order to make them smoother and more natural. To put the shots together we first had to edit some of them separately by using Live Trimming, so choosing the beginning and the ending of each shot by cutting out unnecessary parts. Then we added every single shot together in one single clip creating a compound clip. We used a slow motion effect at the end of the clip when the scissors drop in order to make it more dramatic and make the audience question the following event. We also added text at the end of the clip '7 days before', which means the opening shows the main event of the film which makes the audience very interested about the rest of the film. We kept the fonts simple ,as well as the rest of the clip in order to not confuse the audience and try to not lose focus of the main character.