M.P: Editing

My contribution to Editing

• The main editor of our opening sequence was Kurt however I did do some of the editing
• I did a large part of the editing for the skateboard scene where she is being dragged across. This one was particularly hard to edit as we needed to get the right cutting rate. Also much of the footage for this part was not so good as it was obvious that she was pushing herself across the ground. Therefore I had to really zoom in on the footage to get the perfect parts of the footage so it looked authentic.
• I also suggested to the group about cutting out a whole sequence of the footage where the candle was to roll on the ground and reach the protagonists foot. We had previously edited this part into our sequence however it did not look right and the continuity was not there. Therefore when I had a chance at editing I decided to take out that whole section to see if it would look better without it.
• After I did that, I asked feedback from the group and Kurt and Harry agreed it did flow better without the candle sequence. It also cut down time from our sequence which was good as it was over the time limit at this point in editing.
• Afterschool, I did some more editing with my group and we edited out some of the hair lifting scene due to feedback suggesting the cutting rate needs to be faster and she needs to react faster.
• We also replaced one of the shots when the protagonist is on the skateboard, this is because the current clip does suggest she is pushing herself, despite it being a fast cutting rate, however we cut this out anyway and put in a clip where there is no sign of her pushing herself.
• We also edited the sound that we are using for the hair lift scene, we had to edit it so we had the loud bang part we wanted. This however, was from different sections of the sound clip therefore we had to cut sections of it and fade-in and out to make the transition smooth.
• The diegetic sound from the screaming has also been inserted into our clip now. It took some time matching a scream to the protagonists mouth movement but we were able to do it in the end