Editing Process

To begin editing we first uploaded the footage onto the mac we were using and onto imovie using a fire wire.
Because we mainly filmed in chronologicaal order the pieces of film were easy to arrange into the timeline. We began editing by putting the clips onto the timeline in order. We then began trimming clips and deciding which ones should or shouldn't be included.
We had to remove some of the shots due to lack of continuity, for example in ojne of the shots where Phil was meant to be standing infront of the door he wasn't there.
We fiddled around with the lenghts of clips for quite some time in an attempt to obtain maximum continuity.
We decided not to include the shot of the gaurd punching the vicitm because it did not look very realistic at all, also the fake blood in Wills mouth didn't give the effect we were looking for. We also had to use a cutaway to a shot of the gaurd and prisoner between the two shots of the Bosses feet walking towards the door and opening it, this was because the two best shots wehad were two seperate shots, so putting them one after the other would have made the shot jump, creating a lack of continuity.
For the scene with the gun we had to get a gunshot sound effect, which we downloaded off the internet, We placed this sound effect immediatly after The shot of the boss pulling the tigger. With a shot of the prisoner screaming in pain after that. We used fast paced editing in the scene leading up to the shooting to give a tense atmosphere.
We decided that the film would be alot more realistic and fit the genre we were aiming for if we added a black and white effect. We had to set the contrast and brightness so that it was bright enough to see but there was still a dark atmosphere.
After our film was almost complete we began to make our sountrack in garage band. to give a dark fairly dramatic atmosphere we decided to use orchestral stringed style sounds. We fiddled around with the soundtrack for a while trying to make somthing that fitted with our film.
In the scene leadin up the shooting we used faster paced tense sounding music using the "reflective strings" sound in garage band. After the shooting we used more orchestral music which we had fading out at the end of our film.
Since we were almost finished editing we then decided to think of a title for our production, It alot of brainstorming and thought, but we finally decided on the name "Isolation".
After this we made the finishing touches to our film by doing a bit more trimming and adjusting volume levels to make our production as realistic as possible, for instance we increased the volume level in the shots with feet walking s that the footsteps could be clearly herd.

Matt and Will