Editing Day 3 & 4

Today I decided we should go through everything we had on the editing reel and cut out what we know we dont need to try and make it easier to go through when it comes down to more editing.
So today was us trying to get more organised for serious editing time for friday (22/10/10) and over half term (week starting 25/10/10).

Also on top of this we captured what we filmed on monday (18/10/10), as it was capturing we were watching it and saying what we could get rid of from this, and then after it was captured we did cut out the things we didnt need.

Editing to continue on Friday.

On Friday we continuted our progress with the editing. Using parts of what we had captured and bit of filming that were already on our reel with carried on through the song. We then had to think about:

1. The shots were too long. We found that a lot of the shots of Emily were too long, and although the tone of the song is slow and sad we felt that this bit needed to be sharper to make it more dramatic. We did this by deciding against using continous shots that flowed to using jump cuts. Ordinarily, we would not use this type of shot when editing, but we found that it worked in making the flow move quicker; we felt it did not look odd because the footage itself is of Emily moving out of her house dramatically.

2. Corresponding the two cameras together. The footage we edited today was shot from two seperate cameras, this was mainly so we could film the talking scenes as one whole thing as opposed to us doing shot-reverse-shot with one camera where we would have to get the actors to repeat their lines more than once. We at first found it difficult to work with the two reels of footage on the editing line, but Jodie suggested that instead we dragged the footage from camera 2 to the split screen and simply pull the footage down from there. This worked well as it allowed us to work with camera 1 on the main line and just add the additonal footage as and when we needed it.

3. Deciding the length of the flashbacks. In the first verse, we put shots of Emily putting the case into her car and driving off. At first we were unsure whether to try a continous flow like originally planned or stick to the jump cuts. We analysed the situation, and felt that due to the fact we only wanted short shots it would look most effective to do the jump cuts. It took us a good 10 minutes manipulating the footage to get it to the perfect length, and we asked our teacher once or twice on her opinion as to whether certain shots (such as the one of Emily from inside the car) was too long. She preffered the quick style editing, so we adjusted it to this length.

After we did all of this, we had to think about what