Before we started doing more editing we looked back again at our previous work and made any relevant changes needed. Then we began to edit the whole of Edwards short flash back with his wife, when they were in a picture together. Furthermore, we also at the end managed to change it into black and white also to make the effect of the flashback more visible and understandable we merged in the white flash.
Today we continued from yesterday and began to sync in the sound for the bench scene from the sound recorder. After we completed that we started to begin editing clips of the beginning of Edward’s second flashback and the scene where a poster of Joseph drops onto the bench. This was easier to complete on time as there were a limited amount of shots, so by us completing the rest of the bench scene, didn’t affect us completing today’s aims.
The Bench scene is the key moment in our film as it is the only part with dialogue and the characters meeting one another. This was the hardest bit we had to edit, as we wanted to use our close ups of their faces each time they spoke, so our audience would have a clear understanding of who was speaking and what was being said. But it took longer than anticipated as we had to make sure the conversation still made sense and we didn’t cut off any speech. As it was a long process we will have to continue doing it tomorrow as we need to sync the sound we have on the sound recorder.
Today we focused on Joseph walking out of the house and Edward walking towards the bench. We realised that the best shots were the long shots in presenting these things as it provides the audience with a view of what’s around them, so we didn’t use any of the close up shots that we had in the end.
Today we looked over scenes that we have done already over the past few days and made small changes, to make sure that everything flowed well. Then we began to organise the clips of Edward walking past a group of kids, which was really quick to do as it’s such a short scene.
Edward’s scene of getting ready in the public toilet was edited today. When we looked back at yesterday’s scenes of joseph getting ready, it looked more engaging than Edwards as Joseph has more of a vibrant personality. So to make Edwards scene more interesting we put all the different shots of him getting ready in the film.
Today, we began editing Joseph’s part of him getting ready in the morning. We got rid of most of the shots we had taken with the camera and kept the clean and quick shots for example the close up of him doing up his buttons on his shirt. This is due to the fact of us noticing that the scene would have dragged on for too long and would have become tedious for our audience. The longest part of doing this scene was making sure he pressed the button to the song at the same time the song started. Overall it was a successful day of editing.
