Editing Process Part 2

Today we continued the editing process of our film, we decided after our Geraldines comments from our presentation to go back to basics and for now ignore the clips we had made for the presentation as they were to short and may have cut early or late moments that could have worked. Today we focused on putting the key clips in order on the time line as shown on our story board. We found that this would change and bend based on the footage seen. At first we had problems with the time line, mainly because i was completely new to using it and Heidi had used it once a couple of years ago so it was learning from scratch to fit our brief and ideas. In the veiw finder there was over 30seconds of one clip but in the time line there were fewer than 30 seconds, this was frustrating and confusing, but we learnt it was because we had to move across the area we had previously subclipped for it to flow, to fit the whole clip to add on the new footage we had been editing. This seemed like a massive stressful problem but its one of those things, its easy when you know how!!

Luckily we had help from our friend Holly Taylor (another student) in editing, she showed us how to change the opacity and fade clips into each other, this is a key element to how our film flows. This was something in our draft and finalised story boards and referenced the directors we had researched for inspiration. We managed to over lap two clips on the time line, one being the beautiful scape of the sea and clouds and the other me on the sand dunes. We made the top one see through with the opacity and sped the sea footage up. Heidi and i agreed that this is one of the best sections of the film... so far. We also learnt that day to reverse footage which looked brilliant with the bleeding flowing ink running on/from the letters. and also on the rose. We wanted effects like this to shake up the awareness of time passing, almost to layer and collage sequences for the viewer. (viewfinder: motion:... select effect.) Hopefully now we know the important parts of editing the film should be easier and faster to edit from now on.

Our tutor James saw the footage towards the end of the day. He made comments about how the reversed footage caught his attention and worked really well, this was so nice to hear as it meant we were on the correct track communicating what we wanted from my drawing on paper to moving image on screen.

At this stage the film has clips in the time line in order but not jelled together. We have found that we are not even half way through and already over a minute. We thought it would be easier to make the film this way and then cut chunks off and edit that way.

Below is an example of using the overlapping scenes, and reversing footage:

With the reversing footage we found we wanted to continue use of this effect throughout the film Tomorrow the plan is to incorporate the next clips of footage, including the 'Marko Film event' footage in London and the journey to Camber Sands footage of the cloud formations from the car.

(Below shows us experimenting overlapping footage which is what we wanted to do through most of the film)