Using VideoPad and Windows Movie Maker. 15/2/11.

   I decided to research different computer programmes to use on my computer at home due to not being able to find a way of making the bathroom scene adequately fuzzy on iMovie and the lack of time at school to use iMovie on the computer. I came across a programme called VideoPad that was available to download, recommended on the internet. I trialled the programme by filming a short film of my dog on my digital camera at home and importing it onto the programme. I then played around with the visual effects available for the film and found one which fuzzed out the scene exactly how I imagined it to be when coming up with my storyboard.

   However, when I transferred the films from the iMovie folder from school to VideoPad on my computer at home, the programme kept crashing when I put more than one shot onto the timeline.

   Instead, I decided to use Windows Movie Maker to do the editing at home. Though the programme is fairly basic, I found it simpler to use for my project than iMovie. I also found a visual effect called 'watercolour' on the programme which adequately fuzzed out the bathroom scen so you couldn't see the actress smiling but it's still evident what's happening. Though it doesn't give the same effect as the VideoPad programme did, exactly how I'd imagined on my storyboard, I think the watercolour effect is more effective for the viewer and possibly gives more tension to the scene.

   I've also used Windows Movie Maker before for entertainment reasons, so I already know how to apply sound over a shot, add my own credits, and zoom on the timeline to make my editing as accurate as possible.

Changes decided to make in film: 14/2/11

• We decided to scrap the fifth shot of the policeman finding the burnt tops in the open bins, as the props are too difficult to get hold of and the fact we didn't have the red tops made the act of burning them quite difficult. Also, if we did have tops to burn, it would have been too dangerous to carry out.
•    We decided to label time and date at the beginning of different scenes to make the general storyline more obvious and to make it clear that the title sequence is meant to be made up of random quick scenes, not in chronological order, as though a memory pattern of a person.
•    We also decided to add in blank shots between each scene of around two seconds in length to make the time difference obvious. The labels of time and date can be seen on top of these silent shots. Also, the last of these blank shots before the title of the film is shown is blank and longer than the rest, to create tension and give the audience time to reflect on the title sequence.
•    I decided to remove shot five of the newspapers falling on the table from the film as it didn't look like a particularly professional shot and seemed quite pointless to add into the storyline.