Construction post 4: Reflections on Edit Week 1

During this week we managed to work really quickly, giving up a lot of our free time in and out of school hours in order to get the basic edit sequence finished. We focused on choosing the shots we wanted to use and placing them in the right order in the montage sequence (alternating between a collection of shots inside and then outside), as well as getting our continuity right. This took up quite a lot of time, as we had to cut all the shots down to the right times (only 2 or 3 seconds per shot).

Our group working at the edit suite

We noticed however, that our continuity could have been made to look more realistic. Despite it all flowing and making sense, the slap that Lola performs on Marlon looked too staged and fake, so we needed to re-shoot this in the back up shoot.

I learned how to dissolve shots into one another in order to show time passing, whilst making our actual sequence shorter as we had gone over 2 minutes by quite a lot due to our vast amount of montage shots.

A YouTube tutorial video on how to cross dissolve, like I did in our sequence