Editing our final project

 Friday 11th March 2022

Our first look:

In our media lesson we first looked at the shots that we filmed on the shoot day. I really liked how the shots turned out. I especially liked the shots of the couple together as I like the saturation of the shots. I also thought that the shots that we got in the studio filmed in the red LEDs look extremely good. I noticed that we had lots of walking shots of Nikki which I new that we would have to cut down or we would go over the time limit. We began logging and assembling all of our shots in the order that we wanted them to be in which was pretty easy considering we had filmed in a kind of chronological order. We were also very happy as on shoot day we decided to spend time at the start to take extra scenery shots so we new that if we ever needed to fill time in our sequence we had shots to use. We then realised that our shots combined took our total duration of the sequence to 3 minutes 20 seconds, which was much longer than needed! Tom told us that we had many options to shorten down our sequence so we didn't need to worry. We also new that we didn't want to have minutes of Nikki walking round town as well.  

Starting editing:

We then began editing our shots so that there wasn't any unnessasary seconds of nobody in shot. This mainly happened in our walking shots as we started rolling a few seconds before the actor walked into frame. This took us a while as we also wanted to make sure that everything looked smooth and that the shots don't looked rushed. I thought it would be a good idea to go through all our shots and find places that we can transition two shots together.

For instance:

In this shot we edited a mid shot of freya to transition to a close up of her face. To achieve this we found a point in both of the shots that match up to make a seamless transition:

                     Mid shot.                                                                  Close up

We wanted to show that the wife is under the illusion that her husband is cheating on her. To show this we edited her transition turning around and the family on the table disappears. To accomplish this we got Nikki to do the same this twice, one with the family at the table and the next with a free table:

                    Transition 1                                                                 Transition 2