10 Minute Project

When the 2-minute was complete and we thought we had paid enough attention to it we decided to see what our editor had produced with our 10 minute.

As it was nearing the end of the deadline (2 days to go) I was itching to sit down with it and edit the sounds.

However, after I viewed the footage I knew I couldn't present the work he finalized and so I couldn’t add the sounds. The work was abysmal and rushed together, some of the shots were used three times and he used out of focus and over exposed shots. I was astounded and angry especially as he is a good editor and we had full confidence in his capability from the start.

We came to a junction. We either put up with the footage and get a very low mark or re-do the entire thing. As I had the Saturday off of work (which is rare) three of us start to dissemble the project and start from scratch. We had to use our own labeled clips from the 2-minute project because the editors clips were still not labeled or in bins.

(None of the clips are labeled)

We followed the same pattern as the previous film. We watched every track from beginning to end and picked out the best part and dragged it in to the timeline. We did this with every track until all the footage had been viewed.

Even though this process took a long time and took a big chunk out off our day, we felt it was the only process to go by.

Paul and Hannah had all the documents available (storyboards, story outline) so they put the footage in order of how they thought it should go. I then sorted the sound tracks and kept the sound list as a guide. I was able to look at each track and listen to it throughout then separate the dialogue parts from the waste parts (Tango talking on the phone, friends shouting in the background and fumbling of words). I then gave these to Paul and Hannah so they could evaluate and pick out the bits they thought would fit in to the piece.

(The shots are in order and the clips are labeled)

 I am quite critical and if I think something doesn’t look right or is edit wrong I will say. Luckily Paul and Hannah relished this and accepted my opinions.

When the timeline was more or less in order and the dialogue to one side I took the first turn to finely edit the piece with Hannah and Paul beside me incase they didn’t like something or to give me confidence if they liked something.  

                              (The footage is in order and the timeline is neat and tidy.)