Prelim Task 2.

Prelim Task: EDITING.

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When it came up to editing we realized we forgot to bring our storyboard, so we had to rely on our memory while choosing our shots. It was a real disaster as if you don't have a plan in front of you - it's really hard to choose shots and put them into the right order, especially if you've never edited anything like that before. At such moments you realise how important the preparation and pre-production are. So, due to not having a storyboard, we've ended up with having long shots and close ups only, and then having to change some close ups to the over the shoulder shots to create variety in our footage.

Likely enough, we had great actor who knew the words by hart, however during editing it turned out to be the biggest problem - actors, being emotional, were speaking too fast and sometimes even talking over each other. Of course, in terms of acting and creating the right mood for the story - it's brilliant, but the speed of the speeches, overlapping with each other restricted us from choosing certain shots, as we just couldn't cut in the right place where one guy finishes speaking, but the other one haven't started yet.

For example in this part: the guy on the left has not finished his line yet, and the guy on the right has already started saying his 'go on'. 

Talking about what I would do differently in the future, looking back in my footage now:

1) I would ask the actors not to talk over each other as it creates problems during editing. Of course, it doesn't only refer to the dialogues - I'd need to be more careful and avoiding any continuity mistakes - otherwise it's either impossible to edit well or looks crap.

2) I would not film towards the evening as natural lighting from around 16:00 starts to change significantly. I wouldn't say it was a big problem, however, this short experience made me think about how the lighting is important as it may reveal the time period between two scenes, which shouldn't be noticeable for the audience. 

Due to the 'talking over each other' problem and the amount of time we've spent on it - we did not have the time to make another variation of our sequence in the editing process. But I think its a really good thing to do, as you have a chance to look at your work from another perspective, which may work way better than your first trial. On the other hand, you may get a proof that your first footage works best and other variations are just not as good. Anyway, this gives you something to choose from, so I've made a note to myself for the future editing of the thriller.

Despite the problems occurred, we've still managed to finish editing in the given time. That's crazy, but we've been editing 18 second for 60 minutes! I can not even imagine how long would it take to edit our thriller tasks, with special effects added on top. So, it also gives me something to think about in terms of time - our thriller will take much more planning time, shooting and editing times and I'm really happy we had this little 'trial task' so that we can learn on our mistakes and never even repeat them again, as it may cost too much.

To sum up, the editing process went quite well and gave us a more clear understanding of how to work with our future thrillers - being more concentrated during filming and maintaining the continuity all the time will help us when it comes to editing.