First of all we uploaded everything from the camera on to IMovie and then deleted the sections that we didn't need in order to help the programme speed up, we then went through the main parts and selected the scenes and shots that we had filmed in a variety of ways to give ourselves a choice when it came to editing, we choose the best one that we felt fitted in with the story.
We decided to start from the very beginning of the story board where we first see the girl at a birds eye view angle getting in to bed, we decided that we liked the second shot better as it was a full on birds eye view instead of the side birds eye view like the first one. This is due to the positioning of myself above her when she was getting in to the bed, the first time I was standing to the side of her and the second I was above her. The second scene of her in the middle was more effective because she took up a lot of the screen and it didn't look awkward. We joined this on to the footage we had edited from the first day and we felt that because it is representing her dreaming we needed to add a effect between the two scenes, we added a 'fade to white' in order to establish the transition of reality to 'dream'.
After changing our minds a few times from the tint of the dream being black and white to colour we decided that the natural colour of the dream shots such as the meeting scene was perfectly romantic and we didn't want to waste what we felt was perfect lighting for the effect we wanted to create, we also felt that the black and white being reality could signify the transition from good to bad in the relationship as well as the girls emotions. Therefore we changed the tint from the first day footage back and decided that it looked and fitted a lot better than before hand. The first part with the nice fun memories looked better in colour because the natural light on them made them look more romantic and happy.
Another problem that we felt could alter is the length of the happier part was very long and whilst watching it the audience may forget that they are watching a dream and not reality. Therefore we felt that we needed to have short scenes of her asleep to keep the story flowwing as well as showing her emotions, however because we had thought of this after filming, we have to use the footage that we have which meant splitting up the scenes that we had of her sleeping.
After this we then felt that we needed to change the light on the dark scenes on the bridge without making it grainy however it worked out rather well because it was clearer than the real footage but it was luckily not grainy. The editing applications on IMovie unabled us to make each seperate scene the same instead of having differet lights for each one. Unfortunately we would have liked to not need to do this with our footage but due to our lack of professional lighting and the time of day that we wanted we had no other choice. Overall though I feel that the IMovie editing has made an improvement on the scenes so that it is clearer of the actions.
The next scene that we had to edit was the fight scene which was hard to edit because of the fast pace of each cut and edit, however we managed to add pieces together that look realistic and effective, we stuck to the story board with having choppy angles that change constantly. However during filming we felt that the scene would lose its purpose in the story line so we decided to add dialogue to develop the scene further as well as making it clear. For example the low shot of Harri talking over Max (Luke) gave us a chance to experiment with the story line by making Harri look even more aggressive by threatening Max but also relating it back to the previous part of the film when he looks at the laptop screen.
Throughout editing we had double takes of the footage that we then had to chose which ones we would rather have in the actual film. This video shows the different selections that we had to chose from during editing and the variations that we filmed. Instead of chosing the longer version of him pestering her to answer him and her not answering him totally, we decided to go with the first version where she begins to talk to him first, this was because we felt that it showed her ergency for answers. Instead of her talking we decided to keep it silent so that the audience could feel her emotion more as well as keep the tension. The first scene shown in the film with Harri and the pan cuts his head half of and also isn't steady so we felt that it didnt look very well against our other filming. The second one gives the film a better ending.
Again we have some footage of us directing through out the day and we also have a few scenes that when editing we decided that we didn't want anymore because they didn't fit well or weren't relevant. The first is after the argument scene when Harri has punched Megan and walked out, we wanted to show her love is still there for him however when placing it in the middle of the two scenes we felt that is looked cheesy and unrealistic and it was better to have her straight crying. The yawn scene was cut out because of its irrelevance towards the film as well as its relaxed feeling which should be nervous because in theory he is in the bed next to her. The small pan towards the pillow was also taken out because we felt it looked better in the scene with Harri lying next to it instead of on its own and the night scene was cut because we felt that it was to dark and needed to be down hill to catch the lamp light better. As well as the lamp light being straight in the cameras way.
At the end of editing the second days footage we added the rest of the footage that we had and decided the places in which we wanted to place the title sequence and the credits, we decided to leave her getting in to bed blank and then have the titles coming up in white writing in order to have 'At First Sight' coming up as they lock eyes. We also wanted this at the end of the film with the scene of Harri turning over blank so we moved the credits forward to when she is getting out of the bed and leaving. This film shows the footage that we had at the end of editing, it isn't fully finished as it doesn't have any music in the background and hasn't been totally perfected with edits.
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