Post Production - Editing

Whilst editing my final film I went against the usual conventions of a psychological thriller, which is quick editing and flashbacks, and I used slower paced editing in a linear style. This was because I felt this type of editing would fit better with my film. I also didn't make any adjustments to the footage. This was because the way it looked normally fitted well with the style of my film and I think this is because of the time in which I went out to film as the weather was just right to fit my film. However I did have to overlay a piece of footage as there was a skip in between two pieces of footage so I masked it with a different piece of footage that would fit with the situation and it worked better than having a skip in it. If I was to film this again I would make sure that during that scene that had the skip in it, I would film it as one long piece of footage rather than a few short ones. The only effects I added was at the end I made the last scene fade out and two of the titles I used fade in. This was because I wanted to keep my film simple because I didn't think it would work well if it had too many complicated effects in it and I don't have much experience with the editing software, Adobe Premiere Pro, so trying to do anything complicated may of ruined my film. Also the soundtrack I used in the background was a royalty free dark ambient song I found on YouTube and I used it because it helped stick with the simple style I wanted and it also helped keep the film a psychological thriller as the music would be a convention of the genre.