Editing on Final Cut Pro

These are some screen shots of our thriller movie opening, Manor Way. We used Final Cut Pro to edit and piece together our work because we found it enabled us to create a movie opening that matched our vision of what wanted to create.

We used some simple effects throughout our movie opening such as: fades, flashes, slow motion and filters. We used fades to make the transitions from different shots smoother and more fluent. We used a flash transition at the end of our opening, we did this because it worked well with the plot and the camera angles. We used a slow motion effect on the scissors so that it would look dramatic, and we used a colour changing filter on all of our shots to make the tone even and look more mysterious. We kept our editing minimalistic and simple so that it doesn't look overdone or confusing to the viewers.

In this screenshot you can see some text saying,"Seven days before...". This is placed at the end of our opening because our opening its self is the ending of our movie. We found that this would be a creative and effective way to create suspense at the beginning of our movie.  We added in the text by using the text tool in Final Cut Pro, we used a font that suited our opening and we also used an effect that matched our wants. We wanted to stick to a simplistic opening so we followed suit by making our font simple.