We did all of our editing in Final Cut Express. Here are some of the vital stages of our editing process. If we wanted to make a clip black and white we would select the clip we wanted or in our case if it was the whole movie shift then select the first and last clip. Then by selected effect, video filters, colour correction and then colour corrector. This then enabled us to adjust the level of black and white in our clip. This is a screen shot of the black and white tool. We used this to make the clips in our film into black and white. We used black and white because it is a main convention of film noir and we think it worked well with our clips. To make our clips black and white we dragged the saturation of the clip all the way down to 0. This meant that no colour would be visible in this clip. If the clip was particularly bright or we wanted to make it more shadowed and eerie, we made the contrast higher at this stage which would enhance any shaded areas, making the clip more 'black and white' rather than grey. When editing our film in to black and white we edited each clip individually because we found that each clip had different levels of brightness and if we had used the same level of black and white on all of our clip the brightness and contrast would have changed throughout the clips.


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