Post-Production: Editing

Tuesday, the seventh of April, Sach and Alistair started editing in the computer suits. They got the first third of the movie done during the morning and afternoon, and later called me to come and assist with the editing. Cian, who was with me at the time, and me, therefore went back, and we had a look at the work already done, finding that quite a lot of footage was unfortunately shot rather bad. Some of it was out of focus, and we had big issues with the light shining onto Sophie's face during the break up scene, causing it to appear over exposed at times.

I edited the second third of the movie, which was intended to be a montage scene, and got started somewhat on the break up. Overall we probably realized that we were still way over time.

Today we had our last seminar group. Sach and Alistair had finished the rough cut last night after me and Cian left, and we showed our work to Helen, who picked out many inconsistencies and pieces in which we failed to relay the message and plot of the movie. Some serious reediting had to be done, shifting scenes and cleaning up the montages. 
The middle montage I had worked on as we had intended in the script was too jumpy and unclear for an objective viewer to understand. We had to rearrange them so that the scenes fit the mood that was shown prior and after the montage.
At 12 Sophie came to see us because we had promised to take her for lunch as a thank you. We went to mine first with a camera and got a still of the picture frame, as well as some more audio tracks done for which we quickly wrote down a short script, that later didn't end up being used. Then we went for lunch. Oscar and Sach stayed at Jennison to continue with the edit, and by the time we returned they had changed and improved it drastically. Indeed the film now made more sense, and there was not much time left that we needed to cut down.
Together with Oscar I worked on the music audio tracks, for which we used two songs I recently came to like and chose for the project.
Angus and Julia Stone's "For you" was one of them, the other was "King" by Lauren Aquilina. I think I shall post links to the song, as they quite nicely reflect the nature of the story, and have long inspired me for the shortfilm.

I left a little earlier than the others, when Sach, Oscar and Alistair remained to start colour correcting. it felt like a job I could not necessarily assist with much. Tomorrow we shall meet up to have a final run through the project, and hopefully we will be able to submit tomorrow. 
I shall then also write an overall conclusion for this blog.