Post-Production - Editing

The editing phase of our film went very smoothly. We edited our film on Final Cut Pro and we edited our sound on Garageband and Soundtrack Pro. We began by editing each shot and grabbing the best parts of each scene and shot so that we had a collection of use worthy material and not shot which had shadows or the director saying cut. We then put all these shots in the correct and chronological order so that we could begin to cut it down. Next we edited it down to about 9-10 minutes which was of course too long. In this time we created our montage sequence and created a song loop to go with it on GarageBand. We then faced the task of making our film just 5 minutes long which involved a great deal of topping and tailing all our shots. We also used cross dissolves and fade in's and fade out's through the duration of our film to make it flow swimmingly. Once our film was five minutes long we showed it to our class to gain feedback. The group agreed that the ending of our film needed to be more powerful as the narrative peaks at that point. I therefore decided to use soundtrack pro to add layers to the sound in the last 30 seconds of our film. I created a montage of dialogue from earlier on in the short film to emphasise the idea that it was all lies to make the evil man more comfortable in his position. I used an echo effect on these voices to suggest they are in his head. I also included a hospital beeping sound through this montage to reinforce the idea that he is now stuck in this bed next to an empty window for life until the beeping stops. After this we edited the sound of the film so that it was smooth and so that no other sounds but the dialogue could be heard. Above are some pictures of our editing process.