Editing Pt1

After going through almost all production stages editing is very important and this is a summery on how that process went and what i did exactly. 

Editing Pt1

One of the first things we did when it came to editing with adobe premiere pro was going through and checking all of the rushes just so we know what we are working with and what we achieved on the shoot day. we then left the rushes and made a new bin with all of the footage and renamed the clips if they were 'misses', the angle and or person/props in shot e.g 'Mirror Angle Ali'. The next step we did was ordering

all of the footage we wanted to use into chronological order in terms of our film so everything was organised in the area and ready to edit so that we wouldn't have to move any of the footage around later on. Through looking at our footage we found that some we wouldn’t be able to use due to mistakes like the boom being in frame and the camera being in shot through the reflection of the mirror and we knew not to use those as we marked them ‘miss’, even with these mistakes we still had enough footage from every angle that was very useable. 

A very clear early choice for us was that using music was necessary in creating the right vibe and we wanted the music to be diegetic, we have shots of a radio that we edited so they come in after a few establishing shots which are in silence which I believe was a very good choice as when the jazz music which is contrapuntal comes in it have more of an impact. As this music was diegetic something we had to consider was that you would still have to hear the sound in the sequence so through a couple of hours me and another member of my group worked on balancing the sounds and putting on reverb so that it was believable that they were in a shipping container, we also lowered the volume of the shouts and made it less distorted through balancing. 

Through the editing stage we were able to achieve what we wanted atmosphere wise (tense and unique) but we did have to change the order that we had original decided a couple of times which honestly improved the film so much as we went through every possible good order to review which would cause the most suspense. Another choice we made was how we ended the film as we all already agreed we definitely wanted the light from outside the container to fill the screen and that be the ending and so though editing we achieved this by putting a white backing as a frame and then putting a cross fade between the shot of Adam leaving the container and the start of the white so that it appears as though the light is coming in from outside and slowly fading in, I believe this was successful as it creates a good ending with our sequence but also allows a flashback like sequence to occur as if we were to make the rest of the film start with this flashback like shot as they are usually shown with a flash of white anyways.