Editing.

This was the phase that Patrick and Chris had said that they wanted to do. I was being overwhelmed with other assignments from other modules and felt guilty in thinking that I should have let them take more control on the weekend. However, after contacting them a week after the edit it became clear that nothing had been complete, well apart from what we had done in class. Mainly Yaz, Abi and myself performed most of the editing with little help from Patrick. At this point it became a rumour that Chris had left University and that was the reasons for him not making a show. I do feel that he could have contacted us at some point to let us know that he was no longer playing any role in the group.

Down to the editing....

I love the fast cuts that represent an event that without passing through the lengthy process of something. Requiem For a Dream shows great example of this with the fast cutting that shows them taking a drug. In our film, I thought the scene with her preparing the pot noodle would be a to attempt this with. Here is a clip from Requiem For a Dream.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_3BXG3texY&feature=fvw

This clips demonstrates this at the opening.

Another aspect of this film I liked was the speeding up sequence. This is something that would be easy to apply in our film. I tried this in our montage when Claire delivers the newspapers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0TedJ56L_w&feature=related

After fitting everything into a chronological order, it became clear that their were some key shots that we really needed. It also became clear that we had to much footage that we wanted to use,without the key linking shots. This meant that we had to make a last minute alteration with out script as we did not have enough time to re-film the missing shots. This was devastating for us as we had to remove our key idea due to lack of footage (well, usable footage). The weather really impacted us on the first day, distracting us from the story and shots. However, we did re-arranged the order of what we had and also used a large array of transitions to try to cover this up. I regret not going through the shot list with a fine tooth comb before we moved into the production stage as it would have made everything else that followed much more effortless. I am so happy that we have another film in which we can learn from our mistakes, hopefully resulting in a film I am more happy with.