Day 3 of Editing

Today, 3/2/15, as a group we quickly briefed each other on what we had accomplished so far in regards to each of our paired editing groups. Like our last editing sessions Sam Warren and I stayed as a pair and James Scott and James Lawley stayed editing together in order to make it easier, as we have not been able to film since the last filming day, on the 26th of January, and know specifically what areas we needed to edit if the other pair had missed it or purposely left it out due to the lack of knowledge of how to edit the particular part.

The reason we have not been able to film since last is because of the inadequate weather we have had and the unavailability of actors for the specific filming day we set, which was the 28th of January. The unexpected, heavy snow fall we have had in Manchester made it impossible to film on the 28th and at least two days after this due to the still existent ice and snow on the ground, which would mess with continuity, and make it dangerous for us and our actors to film a chase scene because of how slippy the ground was. Taking safety precautions, we have decided to film the rest of our opening title sequence on the Thursday, the 5th of February, and if we need to film anymore extra we will use the Friday.

As we have not been able to add and edit any new scenes, we decided to make sure all of the shots so far were cut down and to a good standard. The two James' managed to add most of the audio dialogue in our last editing session, however there was still one bit of audio left of which me and Sam added to the shot, making sure it match the subjects lip movement properly, which was made a little bit harder by us not clapping on the track to help us sync with where the dialogue began. We did this by zooming in on the audio and matching it as well as we could with the audio on the initial footage. After watching our unfinished title sequence the whole way through we noticed how the continuity is slightly broken when our two characters start speaking to one another, the ambient, background noise changes drastically when one moment the sound of cars going past is present and the next it is completely quiet. Next time we will try to fix this problem by adding in a sound track of cars going passed constantly during the scene of dialogue, by recording a flurry of cars going past the next time we film, and then repeat this sound throughout the different shots when needed.

To shorten our scene down a bit, Sam put forward the idea of cutting the current camera shots and movements which introduce the film and adding a simple slate with some sort of text on it, an as a group we have decided to do this.

In the next editing session we aim to fix the issue we have had with the inconsistency of the diegetic sound, add a few transitions between shots to make it smoother and more seamless, and begin cutting shots and movements we do not need.