My partner and I decided that whatever we did with the editing we just wanted it to create a tone of fear and suspense. During the post production process I had the most control because we would be editing the scene on iMovie on my computer. However, we both contributed ideas for the editing. One thing that we decided to do was make most of the clips in the scene short. Doing so creates a tone of anxiety and suspense for the audience because they will not know exactly what is happening but they know that it is not something good. As I was getting closer to editing I realized that I would feel much more comfortable doing it if I did a little bit more research on it. Eventually, I found an interview from the movie, “Get Out” which is a movie I had previously analyzed. In this interview, the editor, Gregory Plotkin, was the interviewee and he gave insight into the process. Something that I learned while reading the interview was that when editing, he never altered the shots to fit the music and instead altered and cut the music and sound to fit the shots. Another thing I got out of the interview was also about sound, Plotkin talked about how no sound couldn be just as effective as having various sounds in order to create a certain tone. This made me realize that there is no one way to edit and that it is all based on the look and feel that you want to achieve.
Sources: https://deadline.com/2017/12/get-out-gregory-plotkin-jordan-peele-editing-interview-1202224801/
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