Scene 2 Editing

Because Scene 2 was a dream turn nightmare, we wanted to make sure this was conveyed the best way possible. Our first thought was jump cuts, to disorient the audience, but then we thought about creating a hail storm to make the audience think "what the hell is going on?!".

Our first step was to grab a VHS, glitch style distortion video. We keyed out the solid black background, leaving grey graphical glitches. This was then overlaid on top the looped clips we had chosen. A robot like buzzing sound is playing underneath the entire nightmare crossover, looping several times in fast repetition to give an unsettling popping sound. This is repeated with the camera audio of the clips to make each cut even more impactful and obvious. As wide a variety of video filters were used to make the footage as strange as possible. This is something we improved and added to as we went on in the project.

The timeline of the dream/nightmare switch

Keying out the glitch footage by selecting the colour of the background

The transition onto the nightmare over, Eve's dad has disappeared. A fade transition into the real hellish nightmare that we wanted as download foley screams and cries crescendo into panic, finally ending with Eve waking up in a cold sweat.

The screams in the nightmare

Wakey wakey

Fade to switch to "nightmare filter"

Nightmare filter