Editing the remake

Over the past few days I have tweaked and changed a few bits within the opening of my horror film. For example I have stabilized all of the clips in the film to make the camera shots look smoother and each shot now flows into one another. I have cut a lot of my film as I asked a few people which part of the opening drags on a little and they all said the snap shots at the end. As a result the opening is a little shorter but its just as effective.

The main difference between my previous opening and the re-made version is that I have added music. Even though I clearly stated I would not use music because I wanted my film to be new and un-conventional this choice played against me. As a result I have used basic sounds from www.freesounds.org.uk and then edited them using garage band to make them my own. The music choice doesn't make the opening epic like some horror film openings but it does intrigue an audience and it still plays on the enigma code of what is going to happen. The music choices fit with the dream like state and the use of the nursery rhyme makes this even more so because parents tend to sing nursery rhymes to their children. That particular part of the music is ironic because a child normally feels safe and loved when nursery rhymes are sung to them however, in this version it makes an adult feel nervous because the child takes control of the song and the innocence plays on the audiences' mind. I made a few of my friends watch the opening with the music added and they said it is a lot more intense and they would want to carry on watching it even though the film seems un-nerving. As well as the enigma code the opening of my film still remains as a disequilibrium beginning. This means that not everything makes sense and as a consequence the audience would have to continue watching the film to understand what the dream is about.