Editting First Days Footage.

After uploading our first days footage on to IMovie, we decided the best thing would be to split the filming in to two different projects, one being the main film and the other being us directing. As we were going through it we made changes again to the story board either because it didn't quite fit or we felt that another piece of footage represented the story we wanted to show more. For example we chose the shot of her doing homework and him distracting her instead of her playing with him, this showed that he was restless and influential towards her. We also kept the new angles that we had decided on filming day to add in, "don't push me" was the key bit that we wanted to keep in the film to show a hint of his real personality.

We also experimented with all the different angles that we had with the first meeting scene, we decided that we needed two shots of either over shoulder shot and then it was best to have the long shot because it was a effective shot with the location and lighting. We also then had to edit it so that they crashed together but before the audience saw anything it cuts to the low angle foot shot and sees the possessions falling instead, this was very smooth and effective because it didn't shot them falling but implied what happened in a different shot and angle.

We also had to place all the footage in chronological order because we hadn't filmed it in the way that it had all been laid out, this was easy but we had to remember that we would beediting either side of the piece we had already. Instead of just having his hand on the door handle of the match on action shot we edited it so that he opened it slightly and then on the other side it was already open a little bit this was to make the movement look a lot smoother instead of rigid with a firm cut. This looked a lot more effective because it was a lot smoother and clean.

Another part that we wanted to be smooth and clean was when the phone rang because there ring tone was in each shot, however I managed to adjust the shots to make it sound like it was all one shot, this is a very smooth part of the editing, we had to be careful of how we had her reach for the phone when you look at the phone and there's no phone, therefore we moved the phone ringing to before you see their reaction.

(although it looks grainy, the black and white doesn't always looks like this)This is the tint that we had decided to use on the scenes, the black and white we wanted to use as the dream to signify that they were in the that past and we wanted the tint on the reality to signify that is was a darker and bland instead of being happy.

Once we had edited the rest of that we decided that we needed to have more than what we had anticipated in edits, we used the fade to black, we used it at the start of every scene to make it look effective and it also added to the idea that it was memories and not actually all one story. The editing allowed us to cut down the footage as well as chose the best pieces to put in the film, I'm happy with the way that we have edited so far because all the difficult edits are looking smooth and neat.

Through the sorting of the first days footage we decided to remove a few of the scenes that we had filmed due to them being irrelevant to the movie or not looking very good as far as quality goes. The close up of him smoking we decided to take out as although we wanted a hint of 'bad boy' we wanted to audience to side with him as a gentleman to begin with the make the change larger. The pond scene with them sitting with chips as a first date we scrapped because we felt it wasn't showing time moving on and instead we wanted to show the most romantic scenes that we could, the bench scene was also awkward and uncomfortable and we wanted it to be more lighthearted and fun. The pan of the room was jagged and unsmooth and it didn't fit in well with the film as it took long and wasn't fast paced.


This video shows us directing through out the evening of filming, we had discussing different ways in which the story needs to unfold and the way that dialogue and actions can play a part.