F.O'C: Post Production

On Monday the 26th of January I led the editing process. On this day I were editing the kitchen scene and adding some shots into the basement scene.

The main point of this hour of editing was to properly establish the correct order of the kitchen shots and achieve continuity. Over the course of the 2 lessons and lunchtime I played about with intercutting shots of the basement into the kitchen scene, completed the kitchen scene so continuity was there ready for the rough cut viewing in the afternoon. 
I made the kitchen scene more continuous via:

• Addressing the length of shots and cutting them earlier to achieve a quick succession (almost montage) of clips, denoting her efficient cooking skills.
• Cutting on action was important as it gave a much needed flow to the scene which we didn't have before.

Some of the intercutting techniques I tried were:

• Cutting 5 frames of the newspaper wall crabbing shot in sections in between the longer shot showing the newspaper he put on the kitchen shot. This required me to use the cut clip tool and increase the rate of 'flashes' as the shot of the newspaper progresses.
• Intercutting the bloody knife in between various shots such as the shot where he feels Orla's face. (This may still be used but we ran out of time and had to scrap it for the viewing)

During this editing session I, along with Freya, were polishing up the basement shots and making them suitable for viewing. We did not however get the ending of the film edited during this session.
In the next lesson we were adding additional shots to the basement scene and finishing it off. What we need to do in the last few days coming up to Friday is add in titles, sort out diegetic sound & add in some additional sound.