Rough Cut

Recently we have been editing our footage we took over the couple days of our shoot, some things have been going really well, however it is becoming increasingly difficult as we have not shot all of our footage yet.

We started by going through all our shots and sorting them out into different bins, one for the performance and one for the narrative. Along the way we watched all the shots and took out all of the ones that were mistakes and looked poor.

We then started to cut the performance scene, we wanted it to build up really nicely as the song was building so we used longer tracking shots. We also wanted to keep it a mystery so the audience would ask questions, so we cut together a number of fast shots. When the track dropped we started to use fast past editing in order to give the sequence energy. One thing that I think we did well in this sequence was editing in time to the music, we used the drum pattern in order to form a basis for the way we edited. There is also a section where a new wobbly snyth comes in and we cut the video perfectly I time. However I would like to make the scene eve more energetic and crazy by introducing more crowd shots, with fast past editing.

The narrative so far is also looking very good, we are using establishing shots cut together with close ups of the kids to get a feel of where we are. Again, we successfully used the music as a basis to cut the shots together. This time we used slower paced editing to create tension and allow the story line to be successfully told. We are still yet to put in an image of the woods in on the green screen, which we will do after we have finished the rough cut.

A hard part of this sequence was editing as the music started to build up. We decided that the running scene (we have not shot) is too long, therefore we cut the opening scene longer. In order to be in time with the music, we had to cut a number of shots of the fox walking into the office quickly. This part was really difficult as it took a lot of time and effort, however in the end it looked great. The shots of Jason were great and we were able to get some humorous reaction shots of him looking scared, his award winning performance made cutting a lot easier!

Overall we are nearly finished with our rough cut and very happy with it so far. There are a few issues with continuity and time however we will be able to sort them out.