Preliminary - Editing and Re-Filming

Editing and re-filming

Editing part 1

The first thing I did was to cut the shots of subject 1 walking so that they both went together rather well. I cut so that the outside shot cuts into the middle of the inside shot. I did this using the cutting tools in the left box and then dragging them, in order, into the sequence (bottom right)*8.

I did basically the same thing when editing the conversation, as each half of the conversation was filmed in one go, meaning i had to cut and drag each piece of conversation into order in the bottom right*. I tried to cut in between speech and not during any sudden action so that it wouldn't look choppy and unnatural.

* The sequence bar, or the bottom right as i call it, organises your clips (audio and visual) into the order you want them.

Next I added in the shot of the teddy being thrown, not much editing was required for this, i chopped off bits at the beging to make a smooth transition fom the conversation shot where subject 1 stands up. At the end, subject one looks back at the camera, normally i would cut this bit off but it would mean losing subject 2's reaction and well, it kinda makes subject 1 look 'like a boss'

I took the decision not to include the door shots as i felt they clashed with the idea of the film being a flashback. Would you really remember coming through a door? Probably not.

However, this had grave consequences as my film now consisted of a pathetic 5 shots. The others in my team were also feeling that we needed more, so we went about doing more filming.

Added Shots

We needed this close up/insert shot to make it clear that subject 2 was being forced to pay for his teddy. This was meant to make it more realistic, but in the end, subject 2 is being forced to pay 10p for his own teddy in a school classroom so that something we are not told is not exposed by subject 1 who doesn't like him for no apparent reason. Oh well...
I had to edit this in so that in the original conversation shot it looked like S2 was about to slam a coin down.

Though it does nothing for his good looks, this low angle shot makes subject 1 look more imposing over poor subject 2. This shot was also used for the re-film of the conversation and was made to make the conversation a little more visualy interesting, when added to the original shots.

This is the corrosponding high angle shot to make subject 2 look weak. Again, it was filmed for the purpose of spicing the visuals of the conversation up a bit. In editing however, I decided not to use this shot as it was wobbly because we could not use the tripod for such a high angle.




Next I suggested we add some tension to our videos by shooting some close ups:

These two shots zoom in and then out. The first isn't so good as the subject is silhouetted and out of focus. The second is great though because the light, position, and focus are all as they should be. They both convey comedic tension in the film.

Editing Part 2

After adding the low angle shot into the conversation, I tried to build up some tension using the close ups. Using the two above was easy enough but i wanted to incorperate subject 1 into it. To do this I took the low angle shot of him and            -because he is only still for a fraction of a second- used the 'Clip Speed/Duration' box/tool to slow the clip down. This way I had clips of roughly the same length, one after another, of each subject to create tension. I also used a sound I found on Freesound.org to make it more scary and tense -in a silly kind of way.

After experimenting with sounds by deleting the unnacesary background noise on the window shots for example, I thought it would be a good idea if i had a constant ticking throughout to further add tension. I then realised that I could put in shots of the clock to symbolise the flashback. However, the original shot of the clock was not very good, so i set about refilming it.

Before

I didnt like this shot as it was at an odd angle and it wobbled because we hadn't used a tripod. The poster at the side also annoyed me too. To correct this, me and one team member went to refilm with a camera, tripod, and recorder.



After

This shot is alot better for a number of reasons. You see the clock from straight forward, not at an angle and it doesnt wobble either as we used a tripod. I also moved the poster further right so that it wouldnt interupt the shot. While it was filming, I was just beneath it with a microphone, recording the audio too. The only problem is that you can see the reflection in the clock.

I could not use all of the audio of the ticking i had recorded because of interuptions. As a result I cut about 16 seconds of uninterupted ticking where it was unnoticable if it looped and repeated that over the video.

(picture from google)

Finally I started on the titles. The 'The End' and credits were relativly easy to do at the end, but I still had to do some opening titles. I didnt want to put any opening titles on during the conversation as it would distract the viewer, so I decided to use the shot of the clock as a title screen. To make it slightly more symbolic and interesting though, I used the 'Clip Speed/Duration' box to reverse the shot to show that the film is a flashback.

Hope enjoy the film,

Jack