F.L - Post Production

From the week commencing Monday 12th January, to the end of the week (Friday 17th January) I, along with Fred, edited the half of the film this was the basement scenes, which consisted of all the footage obtained from Shoot 1.

 

The week that I began editing was the start of the whole editing process, so this involved setting up the project and uploading all the footage.

Once editing began, this involved using a range of skills, such as:

• Selecting the footage and analysing which shots and angles were the most appropriate.
• Creating a basic sequence by dropping the footage onto the timeline, which outlined the initial order of footage. This helped continuity and also a simple idea for us to work off.
• I then began cutting the footage and making sure it was the right length (didn't start too slowly etc).
• I carried out inverting clip speed, this involves reversing the order of the clip so that the shot at the start of the clip comes at the end. I did this in a pan shot that ran up one of our actors bodies - the original clip started at his foot and ended on his face, but after the reversal it started on his face and ended at his foot.
• I used cut on action /continuity editing to follow the antagonists movements around the basement.

I also helped edit the footage from Shoot 2 (the kitchen scenes):

• This involved the same variety of skills - cut on action, dropping footage on timeline etc.
• However, I also looked at intercutting, this involved editing small flashes of other footage into a main sequence shot.

Next Lesson:

• We need to look at sound - sound effects and consideration towards a soundtrack.
• Titles - the placement and overall edit of them onto the actual footage (I drew up a rough idea of title order).