Our editing process was quite simple as we had made sure to have filmed our shots in order of what was on our carefully thought our storyboard so that what we were left with in the editing suite was just to piece them all together and make sure they were aligned well so we could get what we wanted from the clips we had filmed. We did start out however just watching all of our clips back to see what we had managed to get and maybe what we would have to adapt to if we were missing certain things. We then started to drag the footage down to the timeline that we knew we wanted to use. The timeline is an interface that enables you to lay a video project out horizontally across the screen and makes it easier for you to get exact moments form your clips. We then bit by bit took sections of those clips and named them specifically as this is important so we can remember what we have actually used and what we haven’t. The framing of the shots did definitely influence the decision on whether we would use the shot or not as if it wasn't framed very well it wouldn't work for our piece as most of our shots were framed particularly well. Sometimes the shots that were framed in a weird way did work for us though as we were going for more an out of the box sort of clip. We then began to fit them in with each other.
We decided that None of our shots were actually needed specifically to be cropped as we made sure in the filming process that we would frame at shot perfectly so that we wouldn't have to crop in the editing process, this did in fact work in our advantage and made our editing process a whole lot smoother. However we did use a cutting tool to make sure we got what we specifically wanted from a clip. For example some clips may have had the director saying action in at the beginning so we would only use the part after that. The diagram that we acquired from the sheet our teach gave us really helped us understand where to put certain clips and also specific things like how we could put audio over a clip , etc. Also we would follow on clips from each other that made more sense together, so we would show the painter painting on a close up shot but then we would show another shot and it would be him still painting but a mid shot instead. This helped for the clip to look a lot more smoother and professional.
Again reiterating what I have said previously, we had a very good storyboard to work from and this was a very large part of what we based our timeline piecing together process of the editing process on. We did stray from the storyboard slightly but that is because we learnt that things look differently when the footage is actually in front of you, so we decided that we would adapt certain clips. The continuity was very important to us as ours was such a simple thriller so we meticulously searched through each clip to find parts that like dup and that could lead off each other, like for example when our painter swirled his paintbrush in the water jar, we would try our best to make the next shot him walking over to paint form the water jar table. However we did specifically make some cuts quite jerky and sudden as we wanted to make sure we could portray properly the erratic behaviour and what sadistic manic thoughts were going through his mind when creating his ‘masterpiece’. we used layers of the non diabetic sound over these scenes especially to project the sheer mass of his madness, the erratic music tis there in hopes to create the same feeling of being on the edge for the viewer for the short 2 minutes.
We did add titles as we wanted to make it look as professional as possible. We decided that we would have each of our cast title credits in between shots of the cast. Also we wanted each title sequence to be equally split after and before every shot of the actually opening sequence. We felt this created even more tension as it keeps the audience guessing for longer. We did however keep the rest of our opening sequence fairly simple. We did this by using no other sound but our non diagetic sound Vivaldi's Concerto for Four Violins in B-Minor, First Movement. we made sure first it was not copyrighted and royalty free and it was. This piece we spent a while searching for as we wanted to get the perfect mix of madness and a sick sort of happiness that would go along with painters emotions.
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