Editing

I used Adobe Premiere Pro to edit, and the first thing that had to come was the Roughcut. I made this by compiling all of the footage chronologically. And as the movie progressed, I had to use the razor tool to cut accordingly. I arranged them as the story went further. We added dynamics to the story by each second we edited. This allowed me to have a rough cut prepared. The next step was colour grade and add the optimum and prominent effects. We had to add top and bottom bars to create a very cinematic look. This was done over several adjustment layers. Then I had to pay special attention to shots that needed extra stabilisation. For this, the effect warp stabiliser was especially helpful. 

There were a few clips of whose speed was also to be adjusted. These clips had to be 'nested' in order to have warp stabiliser applied to them. This further allowed the quality to be enhanced. It started to look even more high definition.  After the procedure of stabilisation was done, now came colour grading! 

My film was of the thriller/drama genre. It had suspense indications throughout the entire movie. For this to be most effective, I had to use blue toned hues throughout the film. In order to do this, I applied the effect lumetri colour to each adjustment layer. What this did was all the footage coming under the adjustment layers had the same colour grading and look to it, giving a blue tone to each layer. The temperature had to be turned down. The tint had to be balanced so that the footage doesn't look all TOO blue. I had to add to the sinister effect by reducing the exposure in the settings. 

This not only gave it a sinister effect but added to the suspense and by doing this, we followed thriller movie conventions as they are not usually very bright. I decreased the whites and increased the contrast and vibrance to have the footage look of high quality and vibrant. Coming down on the effects controls there was an option for adding a vignette. This is extremely essential in order to give even more depth to the dark vibe of the film.  After adding the vignette effect, we added fade in's , cross dissolves where it seemed vital. I

n order to have the ambient sound balanced, I added exponential fades so that the audio would be heard smoothly. For the narration, adding DeHummer, DeNoise and balance effects to the audio was necessary in order to make the film opening sound more clearer and better . The last step was rendering the entire sequence.