• The first decision I made when editing was to use Adobe Premiere CS3 instead of iMovie. This was because I was a lot more familiar with Premiere as i have used it several times before when working on other films in my own time.
  
• I decided to make the dream scene at the beginning of the film black and white because it is then easy to determine that what is happening isn't normal. It then makes it clear when the boy wakes up in bed that the man in the car was in his dream.
  
• I raised the contrast on the dream scene to make the image darker. This makes it seem more mysterious and sinister. Here is an example of this.

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After Raising Contrast -

• I found a piece of royalty free music called "Ghostpocalypse - The Call" in the dream scene of my film. This is because it is very suspenseful and dramatic. It has a solo piano part that sadly drifts over the lone drone of the bass underneath that creates a very eerie feel. It also features a drum part that keeps coming in after certain periods of time. I thought this was effective as it will make the audience feel uneasy as they will be listening and waiting for the next drum to come in.
  
• I decided to have the camera shot and images change in time with the hitting of the drums. This is effective as it gives the feel of a more professional scene as i have carefully chosen the music, and used it to craft the imagery.
  
• I decided to have a bright light reduce into each one of my titles to give the film a professional feel once again. It looks a lot more interesting so therefore keeps the audiences attention on the film.
  
• For the end of the dream scene, I decided that I wanted the tension to rise so that the audience expects something to happen. I achieved this by getting a rising sound off of a royalty free website called "Sound Dogs". I had the rising sound get louder, and the screen get brighter and brighter until suddenly the screen turns to black. This was effective because the sudden change from and almost completely white screen to a completely black screen is very startling and enagages the viewer instantly. This automatically allows the audience to acknowledge that this will be a suspenseful film, and it also prepares them for the next scene.
  
• For the next scene, I needed to use sounds I had recorded with the camera when filming. However, the sound from the camera had a constant white noise throughout. So I attempted to get rid of this. I used "Audacity" and used the "Noise removal" tool to remove the noise as best as I could. The white noise had been removed, but instead was replaced by a very low "digital" sounding noise. However, it is almost too quiet to be noticed unless listened to very closely.
  
• When the back door opens in the next scene, I added a drone that was quite high pitched to show that this isn't normal, and to start building suspense. However I did not make it a loud, low drone to show that this is not the final tension building section. When he hears the knock at the front door I added a low drone to the high one to create the full suspense and build up to the climax. I used the same rise that I used near the beginning of the film at the end of the scene to raise the tension at the end to build up the climax.
  
• The main thing people will notice about the build up to the end is the use of quick flashing images. I used stock images (royalty free), and I found disturbing pictures to use that would unsettle the viewer make them feel uneasy. The audience would almost take the images in subliminaly because they are quiet quick. I also made the images pop up faster and faster until it was just a stream of pictures, one after the other. These are some of the pictures I used:
  

As you can see, I chose pictures that would pray on the fears of a lot of people (especially within the age group of my target audience). I also changed the pictures and added contrast to them to give them more of a eerie feel. Here is the spider picture with more contrast: