Construction post 4: Reflections on edit week 1

During the first edit week, we focused mainly on:

• Renaming our shots
• Identifying which takes to use
• Cutting down the shots
• Adding the music that Alex had recorded
• Recording the voice over with Reuben

We were aware that we would reshoot the shots from Bowyer's water so we focused mainly on the shots from Alex's house to save time in our next edit week.

We used Adobe Photoshop to create the titles for the production companies and the film title. From the research we conducted earlier on in the production process, we identified that many film openings have similar titles such as 'Submarine'.

The title that we were in the process of making

A title from the film 'Submarine'

Our finished title

Our team decided on the font 'A song for Jennifer' because we felt that it was a perfect font for the British indie genre and was similar to that used in 'Submarine' and 'Juno'. Our teacher loved the font that we chose and suggested that, to make it even more British indie, we removed the capital letters to make it seem more quirky and adds character to our opening title, which is typical of British indie. When we showed the title to out TA, they were also keen on the non-capitalised titles over our original one so we made the changes accordingly.

We filled in an editing schedule for when we would edit. This meant that we were able to stay organised for the whole week.

Our edit schedule for week 1

In week 2, we plan to:

• Add the shots from our back-up shoot
• Add titles
• Add the voiceover
• Grade our shots
• Add transitions such as dissolves to create continuous flow between shots
• Cut down each shot by even a frame because our current sequence runs over the 2 minutes that was specified in the brief

I expect that we have a lot of work to do in the upcoming week but I enjoy the editing part of the process very much as I tend to focus a lot on the small details of our sequence.