Editing schedule

Editing Schedule

 

Tuesday 2nd February:

 

Today was a productive editing session as we were able to edit Mondays footage, allowing us to have more time for filming and refining our editing. The editing we accomplished today consisted of editing the conversation between Vera Dawson and her client. In order to make this scene an effective demonstration of our editing skills, we used a variation of shots, such as extreme close ups, medium close up, two shot and point of view shot to allow the conversation to be segmented into a variety of shots to make it a believable conversation and effective opening scene. The conversation allowed us to demonstrate the continuity skills we acquired in the first year production of our As two minute introduction. The skills we demonstrated within this scene was a match on action, shot reverse shot and we obeyed the 180 degree line rule. The opening scenes requires a telephone sound and therefore we edited in the sound of an office telephone ringing from the website Freesound.org. The addition of the sound effect within this scene makes it believable to the audience that the phone has interrupted their conversation.

There were certain aspects to this scene that were difficult as we had to dub the sound over scenes in order to effectively transition from one shot to the other. The multitude of shots within the opening allows the audience to maintain focus on relatively uneventful scene, however, it is a key scene in understanding the plot and therefore the attention to this scene is detrimental for the audience to understand our narrative.

 

The second scene we edited was of Vera leaving her office and walking home through the city. The variations of shots we filmed made editing it difficult as we wanted to maintain continuity but also wanted a multitude of shots to demonstrate our editing skills. One particular scene that was hard to edit was the scene in which Vera walks down the stairs, scans herself out and leaves through a revolving door. The scanning of the card shot was a long shot that we then edited to transition to a low angle shot of Vera scanning the card over the camera lense as if it was the scanner itself. The sound of the scanner had to then be timed to match up with the action of Vera scanning her access card.

We encountered a problem that was identified during the editing process and not during the production, the revolving door scene is a glass door in which the camera and tripod were clearly visible, we had to look through each shot we filmed for that particular scene until we all felt that the best outcome was to use a tracking shot of Vera walking into the revolving door and then matching it up with an exterior shot of her exiting the revolving door.