Account of Editing

Before we started editing we looked through all our footage from the shoot day and found some shots looked better and some looked worse than what we predicted. In order to begin editing in an efficient and fast way we dragged all the clips which we wanted to use in our final cut onto the timeline, we then sorted all our clips into different sections: Gabe and Harry conversation (FLASHBACKS), running and the breakdown. This helped us to begin to build a structure to our sequence. We duplicated our timeline os that we always had somewhere to go back to and if we needed to re establish that section we were able to look back at the shots which were necessary, and before going any further we had to decide if

there were any outliers with our shots (colour, setting) and delete or colour correct these. We then began cutting shots together using a razor tool alongside trim handles and turned on he snapper so that we could make sure our shots fitted perfectly as well as changed smoothly. Once we had a basic outline of our cut we began to think about tittles, we knew we wanted something interesting as we didn't want them to be placed over our footage, because we felt the sequence was already relatively busy, and would be a distraction from the action. We inserted tittles using simply by creating a black tittle slide and adding white font over the top. Next we decided to add some kind of layer or interesting aspect to our tittles. We looked through different folders including short clips of different small elements, such as fire, water clouds, etc... we settled on some sparks we could easily replay to make them last for a long or short amount of time. We opened this clip into premiere and played it underneath the tittles, matching it to the timing of the tittle (reading the text three times). The tittles also enabled us to cut between flashbacks with out worrying about continuity as much, instead of having a white flashback (which we didn't particularly like the appearance of). When watching our cut through we decided it was almost too simple and we wanted to add a twist and sense of anticipation to it, rather then knowing straight away that Harry had killed Gabe, we wanted to challenge our audience and make them think and question what was happening. To crate this we decide to shake up our whole cut and start the sequence from the end, watching Harry's breakdown and then following through with his running and then following the flashbacks in reverse, using the tittles in between shots.