Directions Unit: Editing

After filming I had the tough process of editing, where I would have to be strict on myself to decide what parts of footage I'm going to keep and what Im going to keep.
Overall Simon seemed very happy with my rough cut, but we both agreed there were still parts I needed to change.
We discussed that during a couple of scenes I was missing shots on the other character in conversation. I saw this as an issue myself, and after looking through all clips for those couple of scenes I couldn't find any of those extra shots as when filming on the day, time was very limited. This was a great shame and has disappointed me greatly, but as a result of timing on the day, a couple of shots suffered.
Another element we discussed was sound and the consistency of sound. I needed to pull together all my music for scenes that hadn't yet had any. I also needed to keep the audio levels even, and tone down any clips where audio is distorted.


When I showed Simon my rough cut, I was still playing around with my colour correction. After showing him this, we talked about what would be the best colour grading for my film. He said black and white is almost too generic although it world very well with a couple of shots. We eventually decided on a colour grading which looked good in one of the scenes, and I am now going to set off to make as many shots look that colour as possible. This will be a little tricky given the lighting in different rooms varies so much, but is still possible. Editing this project so far has been quite good. However, I'm not completely satisfied with the way some of the footage turned out. Some shots are quite grainy due to low light, which wasn't improved by the amount of people in a confined space.





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