07/01/2016 - Lesson one- Editing

Editing
After being on holiday for two weeks without being able to continue with editing we planned that in order to stay on top of things and meet the final deadline at the end of january, we needed to be efficient with our time and create aims of what we wish to achieve from each lesson. This lesson our main aims were to continue cutting down the footage as our opening sequence was still too long and needed to be ideally around two and a half minutes rather than over three. We also needed to sort out the sound in our video as added effects such as the sound of the shower needed to be faded in and out to add to the verisimilitude rather than sounding like an added in effect. Finally we needed to start thinking more about the titles but would only focus on this after we'd finished doing the other things to the footage.

To cut down our footage we looked at which parts were crucial to keep in and added to the suspense and which bits could be removed as they didn't add anything to the plot or tension. A part we managed to cut out was Oliver (the male character) walking towards the wall of pictures and articles. This meant it jumped straight into him stroking Daisy's (the female victim) face and kept it concise to the plot. It also draws the focus of the section to the girls he is victimising.

Next we considered cutting down the time it takes Oliver to stroke the other girls faces and in particular, Daisies. However before we made this change, as it was a big one, we asked our friends/class mates what they thought of this particular section and whether they thought it was needed. The feedback we got back was that it was an important clip to keep in as it added to the representation of Oliver and to the mysteriousness of the overall plot so we kept this part in.

Another part we felt could be cut as it didn't add much to the plot was the sequence of our character walking down the stairs. However we again decided not to cut this out as this particular action contains a range of diverse shots such as a close up, low angle and high angle shots and these will help contribute to us getting a good final grade.


Although we took into consideration different sections of our opening sequence to cut we decided that everything contained in our video was important and relative to the narrative so no full action could be cut out. Instead, we snipped parts off from various places throughout the sequence and managed to get our footage down to 2 minutes 42 seconds which was a big goal of ours. We will still however aim to remove a further 10 seconds in another lesson. We didn't managed to sort out the sound today but me and Emma, another member of our group agreed that we will come in tomorrow, during our 3 free periods and sort out the sound.