Editing our opening thriller for the first edit

Initial editing 

A brief idea of where our titles could appear.

My group and I decided to start editing our final opening thriller together. Our main aim, due to being under a tight deadline, was to initially put each part of footage into a chronological order, so that we could go back at a later date and edit it further. We managed to do this for the deadline, as well as editing in where we would like two of the titles to appear. We were very pleased with the overall finish of the opening title sequence, especially considering that it was our first edit, however, something that we must sort next is where the music begins and cuts, as well as unlinking the sound of us filming in the background to minimise and background sound, such as muffled hissing which is common when filming. This is something we can easily edit out. As well as this, even though we used a separate microphone in order to obtain better sound quality, it didn't really make a huge difference. This therefore means that we need to auto record our actor in order to obtain better sound quality. 
On top of this, the footage is far too long for the brief. This at the moment is a good thing, as gathering too much footage is playing to our advantage as we have a lot to choose from for each shot. This means we can easily edit out parts which may be out of focus or not of high quality which will drastically reduce the length of our footage. We aim to speed up the duration of the flashbacks, and perhaps cut out the dialogue at the end as we believe this could be an anti climax to the opening. We can test this in our audience survey.