Editing the 10 minute piece.

Editing the 10 minute piece was very difficult for me, mainly because we had a lot of trouble getting the script finished. Our director and Writer was Ben Brown and although he had a lot of good ideas, he struggled finishing the script. his main problem was that he had too many ideas that he was trying to cram into 10 minutes, and even though he got them all onto 10 pages, realistically the piece would've come out a lot longer, and despite our help he struggled to cut things out because he saw them all as relevant to the story.

Because the script was finished late we fell behind slightly. Another reason for the fall back was our Producer Jonny Copeman. I don't want to sound unprofessional but i feel that it needs to be said. Jonny was not a very good producer, i found that his attitude towards his role was lacking, he spent too long getting actors which pushed the group back even further. 

When i eventually got the footage and started editing, i still hadn't been sent a finalized script or storyboards so i had no idea what order the footage was meant to go in. 

It took me almost a week before i managed to get Ben Brown to come and sit with me during the edit so he could tell me what order the footage was supposed to be in. 

After this the editing went very smoothly a lot of the footage didn't require a lot of editing as the lighting and shots were very well set up and thought out. however there was one exterior shot that did require some color correction as the shot after it was too dark due to the failing sunlight. to counteract this i made the first shot slightly darker so it appeared as though it was night or sun set rather than midday as it was supposed to be. 

To do this i used 3 way color corrector, first tinting the shot blue then using desaturation, brightness and contrast to work on the levels: