Editing of our opening sequence

The editing of our sequence involves, fading, lighting, special effects, and music/sound effects.
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MUSIC

Firstly we started on our music choice for our credits section of our final product. We eventually narrowed our choices down to two:

Our first choice is called 'Awkward Meeting': http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100574
- This was an option because it have an eerie and awkward reality to it. It has a sense of mystery and entices the audience in wanting to know the true reality behind the story line. It has an intense piano sound but is not so distracting that our audience will be overwhelmed by it, but it still gives us the 'horror vibe'.

Our second choice was 'Darkest Child': http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100783
- This was suggested because it is creepy, and will give our audience shivers and make them question as to the nature of the music and what it is intending to tell us as an audience. The frequent changing in notes from low to high, gives the listeners an unnerving and unsettling feeling, and possesses in some ways, a childish and potent vibe.

We found both music clips on a free music download copyright free website called 'incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html'.
We finally, in our group, decided that 'Awkward Meeting' suited our opening horror sequence better, and perfectly matched our story line.

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SOUND EFFECTS

The sound effects we used came from 'SOUNDBIBLE.COM'.

Firstly, we used "WIND"

- This was used as a background sound and was used through nearly all of our sequence. Our natural background noise had to be edited out, and we replaced it with this. It creates a sound bridge for our shots and subtly lets the audience know of the eerie conditions of the setting. It is found typically in a lot of horror films, especially outdoor chase scenes and 'stalking' scenes. 

"SUSPENSE"

As our scene when Emma jumps out at Lauren providing a 'false scare' for our character didn't turn out as well, or as scary as we had previously hoped, we added this sound in to make the shot more 'jumpy'. A sudden suspense noise is found in nearly every horror film, it emphasizes the reaction produced and scares the audience more, because the noise is sudden and unexpected. 

The "REAL HEARTBEAT" sound we edited in lets the audience know that something is wrong and intensifies the feelings of the character. Connotations such as death, running(or being chased), injury and stress are often associated with a heartbeat sound, so our horror product uses and develops the horror connotations.

We used the sound effect "SCARY" over the reaction shot of Lauren when she thinks she hears a sound coming from nearby. Lauren has no idea she is being followed and watched by our antagonist, making the audience sympathize with her, and this sound emphasizes her feelings of terror. 

"CHAINSAW" was used at the end of our opening sequence over our main title 'PEEK A BOO'. We choose this one because it was more scary and realistic compared to the other chainsaw noises we had previously found. This sound is alarming and distressing and immediately lets our audience aware of the nature of the rest of the film. 

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SPECIAL EFFECTS

We filmed our sequence in the daylight despite the fact our scene is set at night due to the fact we had no sufficient artificial light to use and after trail and error we discovered that our shots did not show up well in the dark on our camera. Because of this we had to edit our sequence quite a lot.

This is a shot taken from our opening sequence with no editing(original):

We then edited our sequence and decided we liked our film in 'Black and White', this also fits in with our story line of it being a flashback or blurred memory of our antagonist. We did this by also giving it a blurred framing: