With all the footage in place, I began to edit a first draft of the sequence. I decided to open the short with a wide shot of the grotty, slightly unsettling guildford leisure centre. to follow this I placed a closeup of pigeons to back up the idea of dirtiness and that the area is quite rough. The rest of the edit worked out nicely. The only issue we faced was one of our main shots broke the 180 degree rule and so it looked a little odd. The other main issue was that the video lasted more than 3 minutes - way too long just for an opening sequence. At first I tried cutting any tiny pointless frames at the beginning and end of each shot, so that there was no time whatsoever in which there was no action. This in total shaved off about 15-20 seconds which was good, but not enough. Fortunately the sequence is fairly simple and mainly made up of a woman climbing a set of stairs which isn't particularly interesting. This meant I could cut out two shots of stair climbing which brought the total time down to below 2 minutes 30. To cut these clips I had to use the blade tool on adobe premier by pressing cmd b and I also used the trim handles.
Now, with the first video cut complete, all I have left to do is a sound cut, colour grade, and finally add the titles themselves! My only worry is that the video doesn't build up enough tension for the final scare to have any impact, however I will not truly know until I have added the sound in.
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