Editing

We started off planning for our project to be a technological horror, using Ratter and Unfriended as our inspiration we decided to learn different ways to try the glitches in our project. As modern technological horror is a new sub genre of horror we have used the freedom we have to suggest its importance but not base the whole story line on it.
To recreate the glitches and effects used we would have to use a lot of post production techniques as the instances are not based on reality.
This video tutorial is what inspired the montage of the boyfriend after he was murdered.

Although our plot had to be altered slightly to increase clarity of it, as the Rachael Bridgit remained a blogger we decided the glitches could be reduced but not removed completely as technology (camera and youtube) were core parts of the plot and the glitches suggest how technology can go wrong. This was inspired by the plot of Ratter.

As evident in the trailer there are various styles of effects we had inspiration to apply to our film opening. However if we used all that we planned too the focus of the genre would shift from a slasher with technological influences to a technological horror. Unfriended is similar in the sense that the cameras they use in skyping themselves have a lot of technological issues which connote the danger of technology.

This video demonstrates the process we used to create some of our special effects for our media project. It takes one of the shots of the dead boyfriend and uses quick cuts to cause a glitch effect.

Editing skills: Glitches and distortion effects

Editing skills: Glitches and distortion effects 

The actual film opening will heavily rely on editing, for example we plan to edit and create our own 'glitch' and distortion effects. From research, we found that there are a number of programs that can help create this look, for instance:

• Adobe After Effects
• Final Cut Pro
• Adobe Premier Pro

We found that these programs have a variety of effects that we think would be suitable for the opening. 

Adobe After Effects - costs money

• This particular program can only be used with a payment method however,  we were able to access it as I had the program at home. 
• There are a variety of free effects including glitches, colour changes, distortion and static. 

Final Cut Pro - available at school 

• Compared to the Adobe After Effects, although it is free as we can use it from the school Macs, we found that there are less effects that are useful to us for our project.

Adobe Premier Pro - costs money

• Similar to the After Effects program, it costs money but we do have access to it, this particular software also has a range of effects and both the Adobe after effects and premier pro are able to combine together.
• As both programs can work together, this is easy to create our glitches and effects. 

Learning the editing skills:

From watching numerous YouTube tutorials it is clear that creating our own effects and glitches is not easy. These effects are extremely intricate and time consuming, therefore we have decided to try and get a few starter packs, these were free and available on rampantdesigntools.com. This company offers free effects packs that can be used for any type of project, they also have step by step tutorials which will help us to create our own.

Tutorials