Practical: Editing Flash Forwards

Practical: Editing Experiment - Flash Forwards

As we want a restricted narrative, I edited the story to include flash forwards to lead up to the final scenes. This increases the tension and forebodes future events, creating a good cinematic effect and fulfilling what our audience wants.

I had edited this part of the film opening before screen grabbing. But I have explained each step the exact way that I did it.

1. I layered two similar clips over each other by dragging one lower than the other on the storyboard. To then be able to see both at the same time I reduced their opacity so that the two clips overlap and are both seen, one over the other in the same timeframe.
 

2. To improve the transition of the clips I added a default transition. It was an replica of a ending tape. I made it shorter than the default setting as it made it less obvious and therefore made it flow better, and the flash forward scene worked better.

 

This technique of flash forward scenes means that the scenes fit in well and the whole scene fits in even if it is from a different time period.