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Once all the film was completed we started to edit our film. As a group we spent two days capturing and editing our film together in the editing suite. After these two days we felt we had finished our short film, but we might add some erie music to it so we were happy with how quickly it had come together. That night we managed to lose our saved project and had to re-edit the whole film again!!!!!!!! :(

Although at the time this was very frustrating and very, very annoying it made us work though all the scenes again and gave us more time to think of better ways to finish our film. We saved ever copy we made and changed together on every possible hard drive and memory stick we had. After many different versions and every one in the group being a perfectionist we came up with what we thought was our final film. After getting feed back from our piers and Jools in was discovered that somethings still weren't quite right with our film.

The zooming in on the phone should be three separate shots instead of one continous zoomed in shot. The reasons for this was the camera/camera man spent to long a time re-focusing the shot which added more unneeded frames that were out of focus. If the scene had been created using three shots which when then edited together the shot would be clearer to see and half the time, but without losing its meaning in the story.

To cut off the zoom in in the bed scene as you already get what is going on. The reason this was edited was because you knew what was happing and it didn't need to be as long as it was as nothing else was going to happen in that shot. cutting this down also help kept the viewer interested in the story with out becoming bored with overly long scenes.

To repeat the first two smoke scenes to the end. These scenes were shown again to show the audience that they already know what will happen after the room fills with smoke. It explains that the timeline of the film is broken and that it actually starts with the end. These two scenes were also shortened as it wasn't necessary to see the whole shots again as this would bore the audience, but as just a refresher of what they had seen at the beginning to remind them that the scene are in the wrong order.

To add the erie Music to the text message scenes as well. The erie music that appears during the smoke scenes was added to all the text message scenes as it gave the audience an understanding of how the character was feeling whilst reading the messages, but without the character having to speak. It also added tension and drama to the scene, which without would be boring and dull to watch. It also explained that these messages were from the same person/thing and has some relationship to the first two scene as it shares the same erie music.