Editing Process

As we needed to film again and the cameras weren’t available until the second week of editing we had to use the small amount of footage we had and edit it. The footage was used for a cutaway and once that had been edited how we wanted we focused on the title sequence. Our short film is called ‘I hate boys’ which has a girly feel to it. Because of this we wanted to do a school theme title sequence and I had an idea to do a stick boy and stick girl. The titles actually took quite long because we had to get the right dimensions for both of the stick people on Photoshop and then as we wanted it to be animated, we had to individually save each letter of the title as a JPEG then put it all together in Final Cut Pro as an animation.

Once we had completed our second filming I felt relieved because we could finally get stuck into it. The short film is one long scene of the protagonist walking through the park so to make it visually interesting; we edited several short shots at different angles to make the shot seem continuous. Trying to get the continuity perfect was quite difficult because when we were filming we didn’t consider little things like the tripod or an old man in the background. This meant some of our really nice shots couldn’t be used because the continuity wouldn’t match.

Lucy wasn’t in so I completed the sequence, trying to focus on the continuity and making sure the visual matched the length of the voiceover. I was happy with the end product although it had changed from our original idea of a layered shot with the protagonist appearing twice in the shot. Even though we had the footage of the layered shot, I felt that it didn’t work once we were in the editing process.

When Lucy was back she was happy with how the short film was completed and so during the lesson we just tightened up the shots making it perfect. Some of the earlier shots were too white due to a problem with the iris so we spent the majority of the lesson using the colour corrector to try and make it look more professional.