Editing & Rough Cut

In our group, Elliot is the one who is in charge of the editing, while the rest of us will help and give input whenever and wherever we can. So far, things are looking good, if anything our biggest issue is that we have enough footage for a 15 minute film, which we can only use 4 minutes of, therefore picking which bits to use and which bits to sacrifice is currently and will continue to be rather difficult.

We therefore decided it would be most effective to simply make the film as we had originally intended, and worry about the length once everything was in place. After having done this, although we all enjoyed the film and thought it looked brilliant, we realised that we were around 2 and a half minutes over the limit. In order to remedy this, we ultimately decided to cut more or less the entire first section, where you see Sophie walking home and encountering the drug deal, the chav and the homeless person. As much as we liked these sections, we realised that, in terms of the overall plot, they didn't really add anything, it merely set up the idea that the protagonist lived in a rough area, however this fact can be established through the inclusion of the parents arguing later in the film.

After having removed that, and rounded off a few corners with some shots, we were left with a  film that lasted dead on 4 minutes, excluding the credits, of which you can see below:

From watching this, there were a few things we still wanted to do, such as colour grade the shots, emphasizing the black and white more in the flashback shots, therefore making it look less grey, and emphasizing the blue's and pinks in the rehearsal shots. We also still needed to add the sound effects of the parents, played by Myself and Amelia, in over the shots of the protagonist at home.

After showing this to our tutor, he suggested removing some of the parts earlier where the camera goes out of focus unnecessarily and to change the last shot to something that looks more determined, as he felt the protagonist looked scared, which rather defeated the point of her building up the confidence to perform at the end of the film.