Editing

As we got our filming done early on and within the first couple of weekends available we were able to spend a lot of time editing and improving our sequence. When we first captured our film from our cam corder to the premier editing software we realised a few problems with our filming. We first captured the whole thing which were automatically split up into seperate clips. As we took many different takes of the same shot we had a lot of shots to look through. This was good as we had a choice of different shots so we were able to choose the one we thought would fit best into our sequence. We then tried to get a rough idea of how the shots would look together so we placed them onto our storyboard. We played it through and realised one, a lot of our shots were very dark and two, the beginning and ends of clips had to be taken out. So we spent a lot of time going through every clip cutting it to the write length and then putting it back into our story board in order. By doing this we got a sense of how long our sequence would be and what elese we had to do. Overall at this point the sequence came to about 1 minute 30 seconds so we had another 30 seconds for our end chase scene and title credits. We also changed the lighting on a lot of the shots to make them look more grainy on the internal shots and lighten up the external shots as they were very dark. We also realised we had to redo two of the scenes, as one of the scenes wasn't very convincing and there needed to be a longer gap between two other shots. We then went out and re filmed these two shots and also filmed are chase sequence. We then did the same with these two shots as we had with the earlier shots and replaced them in our storyboard. We then put in our title credits. We used a font which we believed comformed with our genre. We placed the names Nick Reilly and Jake Tomkins over close ups of our faces so the audience could establish who was who. We also placed Jack Clark's name over one of the clips of him in the car. We spent a lot of time going through different title pages and effects. Eventually we came to the conclusion, based on the title credits in the film 'Control', we had have a plain title screen with just the title 'The Come Up' flashing on and off becoming bigger on the screen. We believed this was very effective. Once watching our whole opening sequence through we realised something was missing, there had to be something in there which established the audience with at least one of the characters. We decided to use a shot of Jake sitting there and a voice over explaining his inner thoughts. By doing this it would enable the viewer to relate to this character and side with this character. We edited this sequence in at the beginning of the storyboard. After this we believed we had all of the shots we needed and ran for a sufficient amount of time. The only thing left to do was put in the music and get rid of the diagetic sound. Jake edited and looped the sound track to try and match the music with what was going on in the opening sequence. We then laid the soundtrack over the sequence. As in a lot of the scenes the diagetic sound is very load we had to mute these sounds and raise the volume of the bits which involved dailogue or sounds we found would add to our sequence.