on-going editing process

After uploading all of the footage onto the computer we used iMovie HD to edit our film. As we filmed the locations separately we started with the indoor location first. We pulled out parts of the footage that we thought suited our film best and put them all in black and white. After this we started cutting our shots down in order for them to have a better fit within the film, more concentration went into the match-on-action tap sequence in order to make sure that it was exactly right cuts. Due to technical difficulties we had to re-do this process, however we knew where every-thing needed to be, and it worked out better as we found another shot that would have worked a lot better.

After this we then started to edit the train station scene. We repeated what we had done before, we drew footage that we thought was appropriate, made it into black and white and then starting cutting irrelevant footage. We placed this footage onto the back of the previous editing as it was easier to see what we had done and what needed to be done then it would have been if we out it into sequence. After we edited the footage, it became clear that we needed to re-film two shots from the film. These were a pan of our male character walking up the train station and also the still medium close-up of his feet.

There was a lot of ambient sound when we listened back to our footage and realised that the voice over that we planned would have sounded unprofessional and slightly muffled. Due to this we had turn the sound down on every shot excluding the final one of the train leaving the platform, which we kept running two seconds after the screen, had gone black. We kept this in as it would have generated a better effect and would fit in with the music, which would be playing at this point in the film. Four titles were then added, and we placed them so that they would break up the footage when cutting to the next character. The order of the title pages read “Chris Stubbs” then “Rachel Bennett”, then “A Whitworth and Cosway Production” and then finally “From The Past…” The third title was placed in the middle of Rachel’s sequence as it generated an ellipsis of time, and the final title was placed at the very end of the sequence to generate a sense of enigma.

We also tried to fade the two faces of each of our characters together so it gave the impression that there was some connection between the two. However when this was completed it made the film look unprofessional and it didn’t fit with the rest of the film. Instead of using this fade to establish the connection between the two characters we decided that the voice over could achieve this.