Belated Screen Shots

I have gone back into the project for "Bout" and taken some screen shots to show the decisions we made during the edit.

We wanted the opening to be very long and slow. So we could build up the intense feeling of frustration. by drawing out uncomfortable silences and shots the audience starts to feel frustrated too.

This picture shows the length of the clips we used, and how I used Opacity fade to extend them even longer.

This shows how i slowed down one of the clips to make it appear longer, as the actor is stood still, it does not obviously show that it has been slowed down.













Next was the montage scene, this was very difficult especially because i wasn't editing to music. at first i tried throwing clips together randomly, but this proved to be a fruitless effort:

the main problem i found, was that throwing them together randomly, meant that the clips were the wrong size and length and there was no rhythm to the piece.



so I tried a musical tactic, by doing it with beats, every few seconds add a clip, then as the montage progresses the time between the clips gets shorted as do the lengths of the clips. this seemed to work. once i had a basic outline of the montage structure i could add other clips in-between and create a type of composograph effect - obviously once the sound design has been added.

this picture shows the montage in progress ( luckily i had started it in a new sequence, so as not mess up the main edit. so i was able to show how i began with the montage edit).











Lastly i had trouble deciding the ending, it was a decision between a certain number of shots and whether to fade them or straight cut. so i tried out 4 different possibilities so i could watch them all one after the other and see which one i preferred.

I had quite a lot of help from Ben Wilson (director) throughout the editing, although i did the editing itself, Ben's help and input was a big part of the finished piece.