Construction Post 24: Reflections on Edit Week 1

Our groups target for this edit week was to have all our chosen shots onto the editing timeline in the correct order and cut down to the correct length. We also aimed for them all to be edited for proper continuity and mixed well with the soundtrack and sound effects. As well as all this we wanted our titles to all be in the correct positions but with basic effects, i.e. not done on LiveType. The reasoning behind this was because we needed to find out if any of our shots needed to be redone for reasons such as incorrect framing, bad lighting or acting which could be improved upon. Any shots which we thought needed to be re shot were noted and then planned as part of the back-up shoot on the following weekend. To make sure the group's organisation was high we designed at edit schedule so everyone knew when to be editing and to ensure the workload was fair.

Our edit schedule

There were two main issues which we flagged up that we felt took precedence over the rest:

1) Throughout the entire news reporter scene, the actor can be clearly seen looking to the left of the screen in order to read her lines; this is not normal for a professional news broadcast and therefore disrupted the immersion of the audience. Thus, we agreed that the actor needed to learn her lines in advance so this issue would not arise again in the back-up shoot.

2) Another issue we encountered when looking back on our footage was that is was not obvious for the audience that the antagonist was watching the news broadcast due to some continuity errors. To fix this we thought it was best to add some reaction shots of the antagonist during the broadcast as this would make it clear to the audience that he was watching it.

In spite of these issues which needed to be corrected, I believe that this edit went very well due to the high efficiency that everyone in the group worked at as well as the fact that we felt our sequence was meeting the demands of the brief.