Changes to rough cut
The first thing we changed in our rough cut was a tiny blip of sound at the very start of our peice that wasn’t meant to be there, but due to our crappy editing software we had never heard it before.
We then added titles inbetween and over video footage to give the feel of an introduction to the story. We did this using After effects, bringing in the text with a sweeping effect and making the background transparent, then adding it to our film.
We removed our first shot of an odd gardening tool with blood dripping from it, as it was unclear exactly what it was. We also reintroduced the fast editing effect of the photos before. We however did not remove the slower editing, as suggested in our feedback, as we wanted the viewer to focus in on Annabelle’s face.
We added another sweeping sound effect when Annabelle opens her eyes. We got all our sounds off freesound.org by searching the kinds of sounds we wanted and trying our different ones along side our video footage. We made all the non diegatic sound, such as the tremolo of violins and an echoing sound, more continuous and less jumpy and distracting. When Annabelle is looking at the pictures we added the camera shutter noise to give it more of an edge. I repeated this one sound and added reverb to make it more echoing, representing the memories of the photos. We sorted out the sound recorded with the video as it includes lots of different chunks which needed to sound continuous. I also added another side view shot of Aaron taking the photo that can hardly be seen, but creates a flickering effect to match the camera shutter sound.
