The editing was probably the hardest bit of the whole project, this is because it took the longest and needed the highest degree of detail. For example a simple idea is the dialogue lining up with the video, however we had issues with that. To overcome it however we detached the audio clip and manually synced the two. The program we used to edit the video was Adobe Premiere, here's a screen shot of the editing process (rendering to be precise):
Some good transition techniques we used were dissolve, fade to white/black and simple cut aways. An example of the fade to black is during the logo sequence, we used it here because it was very simple what with the logo's black backgrounds. However at the end of the logo sequence it fades to white to show the transition into the actual film, another example of a fade to white is at the very end when the title screen appears. We used fade to white there because it gave a finish to the 2 minute clip. An example of the dissolve would be where the circular dish dissolved to the bright light, traditionally the dissolve meant a change in time however we thought to use it as a change in location. This is however one of the things that is unclear about the clip, so if I were to improve it I would perhaps use a different transition - possibly a simple cut away.
As for effects there wasn't really that much used, the most technical being the security camera (previously discussed). Apart from that there were a few adjustments, like for instance the whole video was given a dark overlay. This made the clip more dramatic as the darkness always signifies to an evil of some sort. You can see the darkness in this shot slightly but the idea was that it shouldn't be that noticeable.
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