Week 11 - Let's edit!

 We finished filming on Wednesday! We now have all of our shots with a few contingency options in case things don't work in the edit. Last week we realised how short 2 minutes actually are when we assembled a rough edit and it all stacked up really quickly. We're already talking about shots that aren't going to work or things that need to be trimmed down for the final cut. I think that it had even affected how we approached the last day of shooting and how we went from winging it and seeing what worked, to pinpointing the shots we actually needed and just going with those.

I think the most interesting thing that's happened since starting this project is how much our film has developed since the original concept was pitched way back in week 7.  When we first started, our film originally felt like a serious drama, heart felt and shocking whereas, in reality what we've ended up with is a slightly comedic crime thriller. We still like our film and are maybe even happier with the way its evolved than what we had planned to start with, but it really shows that anything can happen when you're developing a concept and the best way to handle the changes is to go with the flow. We know that this probably wouldn't work if someone was paying us.

So far, I've really enjoyed filming and being a part of the trio. I think our team skills are strong and more often than not our ideas come together in a surprisingly good way! In the next week, we are going to do another edit and start to develop our end titles. Again, we found that what we originally wanted to do for the cut, won't work and we've had to modify our approach. It's still works and we like the new idea, but it's always hard to let go of a shot that you thought would be really nice.

We organised a couple hours of editing on Sunday so we should have something decent by next weeks session.

Update: None of the computers at the Uni would let us unzip the zip file from Onedrive. It was really frustrating because it was the only day we were all available other than Tuesday. We ended up just making some notes and Sean managed to get something together. We'll be coming in early Tuesday to give it a once over before class.