Today, we began editing our film. Since we had a bigger group than all the others, Connor was assigned the roles of assistant director and editor. Although Connor had the role of editor, the rest of the group still sat in the edit suit to give their opinions and offer suggestions. The first thing we did was have a look over the footage. Unfortunately, we found that most of the shots from the Civic Centre were out of focus, and that one of the actors kept looking directly at the camera. There wasn't much we could do about this, as we wouldn't have been able to arrange another day at the Civic Centre, as our deadline is 9am on Monday. I think if we could go back in time, we should have checked the footage on the camera while we were there, or maybe just repeated some scenes to make sure we had lots of shots of it. Luckily, the parts where the actor is looking at the camera, Connor was able to cut to a different camera angle to disguise this.
Once Connor had finished putting together the first scene, we began to get worried, as this one scene alone was a minute long, however we can sort the length of the film out later once we have got all the scenes, it can then be cut down.
The next scene that Connor edited was the scene on the stairs where Natalie and Mourning Girl are having their big fight. With this footage, we found that at a few moments the boom pole was in shot, Connor tried to crop the footage, but it didn't look right, so we're going to have to cut this footage up a lot, as the only shot we have without the boom pole is where our actress muddled up her lines and started laughing. This is fixable, it may not look the best, but at least we know for next time to keep checking whether the boom pole is visible, as I remember when we were filming this scene Kira was struggling to hold it, as she had to hold it so high up.
We then moved on to the scene where Mourning Girl is crying hysterically under the stairs. We found with this scene that our directors feet are in shot, so Connor cropped it so that they weren't as visible. The feet were only visible in the very bottom corner of the shot, so it was easy enough to get rid of them. Watching the scenes of Jasmine reminded us of how good she was, because she's just so dramatic and the scene worked so well.
After we had finished the scene with Mourning Girl under the stairs, we finished for the day.
The following day (12th November) we finished editing our film. Our director Ethan and Editor Connor oversaw the editing today as I was helping another group with their film. Unfortunately I got back later than I thought and missed all the editing that was done today, however they did manage to complete the film, they weren't entirely happy with it, but our deadline is on Monday and none of us had Final Cut Pro 10 at home which meant we had to complete the film today as we couldn't do it over the weekend. However even though the film hasn't turned out how we wanted it to, I can still evaluate it and get some feedback.
Another point that I'd just like to make is about how I expressed concerns in my previous post about how I didn't think the film would work without the ending on the script. However since we have now finished editing, I am able to see that even though we didn't have the scripted ending our film was still successful and managed to tell a clear story.
Once Connor had finished putting together the first scene, we began to get worried, as this one scene alone was a minute long, however we can sort the length of the film out later once we have got all the scenes, it can then be cut down.
The next scene that Connor edited was the scene on the stairs where Natalie and Mourning Girl are having their big fight. With this footage, we found that at a few moments the boom pole was in shot, Connor tried to crop the footage, but it didn't look right, so we're going to have to cut this footage up a lot, as the only shot we have without the boom pole is where our actress muddled up her lines and started laughing. This is fixable, it may not look the best, but at least we know for next time to keep checking whether the boom pole is visible, as I remember when we were filming this scene Kira was struggling to hold it, as she had to hold it so high up.
We then moved on to the scene where Mourning Girl is crying hysterically under the stairs. We found with this scene that our directors feet are in shot, so Connor cropped it so that they weren't as visible. The feet were only visible in the very bottom corner of the shot, so it was easy enough to get rid of them. Watching the scenes of Jasmine reminded us of how good she was, because she's just so dramatic and the scene worked so well.
After we had finished the scene with Mourning Girl under the stairs, we finished for the day.
The following day (12th November) we finished editing our film. Our director Ethan and Editor Connor oversaw the editing today as I was helping another group with their film. Unfortunately I got back later than I thought and missed all the editing that was done today, however they did manage to complete the film, they weren't entirely happy with it, but our deadline is on Monday and none of us had Final Cut Pro 10 at home which meant we had to complete the film today as we couldn't do it over the weekend. However even though the film hasn't turned out how we wanted it to, I can still evaluate it and get some feedback.
Another point that I'd just like to make is about how I expressed concerns in my previous post about how I didn't think the film would work without the ending on the script. However since we have now finished editing, I am able to see that even though we didn't have the scripted ending our film was still successful and managed to tell a clear story.