Re-editing Day 2

January 11th 2017

During the editing on the 11th January, we located our new pieces of footage which are the outdoor scenes of my character Mirabell, as well as Geraldine. Megan and I initially decided to watch the variety of shots so that we could choose the best ones with the highest quality and placed them in the right places needed.

We then began to edit the pieces of footage. Once we had done this, we chose to begin adding transitions such as dissolves and fades in order for our opening to be continuous and flowing. We devised experiments for each transition and effect in order to choose the best placement and effect for each piece of footage. This proved to be helpful as we chose the best ones to enhance our narrative.

We then came across a significant issue with audio. This was the scene with Geraldine and Mirabell, when Geraldine says "And my payment?" Due to the weather and location, the audio was an issue. Realising this was not good at all, we researched many ways of removing the background wind noise, however, these still did not show continuity and therefore we decided to re-record this piece of dialogue using a mic. This was the best possible method. We ensured that Sophie, the girl who played the role Geraldine, spoke her words into the microphone just how she had before. It did not take too long and proved to be effective.

On this day, Megan and I knew it was importamt to get feedback from some peers so that we had an insight on whether we should improve some parts of our editing so far. We created a small focus group of our Media peers and asked for their opinion. The main opinion was that they believed we had unique and interesting pieces of footage. However, they also believed scaling one of the shots of Mirabell and Geraldine speaking. We used this feedback and scaled the particular shot and it did make it much more enhanced and continuous.

We began planning again and chose to have more shots in this section than we initially planned. We decided this during editing as we knew it would make our film more interesting. We decided on tracking movements and pans rather than only static shots. Once we had edited these outdoor scenes, we added in all of the walking shots of Mirabell. This allowed us to be ready for the next editing sessions. These would be including the flashback and title sequence. The titles were used on the walking shots of Mirabell which we had already created in the last editing session. We included these in and reviewing audio.