Editing Scene 37

We were given another task in Post Production tutorial, first we had to edit scene 34 and now we have been given scene 37 from the same film. This time the video was more difficult to edit because it had some more problems with the footage.

Link to my edit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLtDxZUyGSM&feature=youtu.be

In this clips a lot of the actors lines changed during every take, from this I have learnt that something simple as a word changes in the clip it can make the scene difficult for an editor. It can become difficult to join lines together from two different clips because the actor's line was spoken differently. In this scene there was more characters and movement to scene 34, scene 34 was particularly easy to edit because the characters were sat down. In these scene the characters move around a lot more which creates more of an obstacle as an editor.

For example, one problem at 1:06 was when she turns behind her to look at the woman. This was difficult to sync up because there were other takes of an extreme close up as she turns around, I found it hard to decide what shot to use in the end.

This shot was also another problem because his face was blocked and we can only see the half of his face. Although this is a problem in the production stage, it could have been fixed by using a different take.

Another issue was audio levels. The audio levels during this hard to keep consistent, and in future I know that I will have to get the use of managing audio levels. Having someone else to listen to the audio mix is useful as I can get a second opinion on how it feels to them.

Editing this scene was good practice because of how each shot was different, it was good to try and solve the problems in the footage and follow the script. As an editor these are common problems which you would need to face so this project was good practice.