Editing Process: Part 3

Today editing resumed where we left off yesterday. Another issue was resolved with help from Olle our tutor. A problem we had realised from our presentation was some of our long full body shots were vertical. This was because we wanted tall low down shots of me filling the frame as David Lynch had achieved in the advert he produce for Gucci Gold perfume. We found in footage on You tube the height was exaggerated in the models appearance with Lynch lying in cut out sections and steps with the models high up on blocks. This was not possible on the sandy beaches and to resolve this problem was to turn the camera portrait and vertical. However on film this leaves two black strips down the widescreen shot. Olle helped this issue by overlapping two piece of footage to fit the screen almost like split screen and this worked really well. Areas of left over black space we discovered could also be used for credits and titles.


Bellow is the first draft of our opening sequence, we felt it had impact and did suit the style of our designer well:




This affect was achieved by dragging sub clips into the time line which were then rendered as soon as the red line appeared. The timeline curser was placed at the beginning of the clip, and by clicking 'the symbol on the secondary viewfinder... image & wireframe...' then simply moved both frames into place. This way they both faded at alternate times and overrlapped to create an interesting piece of footage.


We so far think our film is going well and have continued to use the skills learnt yesterday and the new ones learnt today. Our aim for the day was to get all footage into the time line in order with a rough edit to polish in the next few days. We managed to achieve this but unfortunately was over the time limit of 2 minutes we had 3 and a half minutes of film!!! When viewing the film we can see places that need shortening and polishing to a professional degree. Scenes such as the letters with ink running and burning , also the roses being teared up and having ink dripped on them are way to long in comparison to other footage we had of the dresses and beautiful scenery. We don't want to loose the audiences attention. Heidi and i analised the footage, coming to the conclusion that footage of Marko's event was not necessary to the plot of our story. We had enough motifs and symbolic suggestions to explain the love the character has for the designer and his clothing, the footage of Marko's actual fashion film didn't seem important with our film to describe what is happening. The footage is very fuzzy and not filmed with a camera of high resolution. We will not delete it however as from previous experience we know it could be of use later on at the end.


We learnt other effects today such as: 'video transition ... dissolve... cross dissolve...' (then drop it on the timeline and drag across clips.) These were another way of linking one piece of footage to another.