Experimental Film- Editing Days

Editing Day 1 & 2 (04/04/16 - 05/04/16):

We knew that in order for our editing to begin it would be a lot easier if we logged all our footage first. Especially since we have such a large range and so much footage it would help a lot. We decided that the logging should be split up amongst the group so that everyone can take part. Me and Katherine made a template for the logging as we were the only two in on the first day and we sent this template to everyone else so they could begin logging from home too. Myself and Katherine took on together the job of logging all the Go Pro footage and all the Studio footage. We got half of this done on the first day and then alone on the second day I finished the other half myself. Here is the finished logging sheets I made:

NAME	DURATIONS	CUTS	YES	MAYBE	NO
BB1776.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes – 1st still	00:00:00 – 00:00:05	00:00:00 – 00:00:04	X
BB1777.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes – 2nd still	00:00:00 – 00:00:13	00:00:01 – 00:00:12	X
BB1778.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes – 1st focal change	00:00:00 – 00:00:10	00:00:01 – 00:00:10	X
BB1779.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 2ND focal change	00:00:00 – 00:00:10	00:00:01 – 00:00:09	X
BB1780.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 1st Party Still	00:00:00 – 00:00:12	00:00:01 – 00:00:11	X
BB1781.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 1ST putting out fag/s	00:00:00 – 00:00:04	N/A			X
BB1782.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 2nd putting out fag/s	00:00:00 – 00:00:05	00:00:01 – 00:00:05		X
BB1783.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 3rd putting out fag/s	00:00:00 – 00:00:06	00:00:01 – 00:00:06	X
BB1784.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes -4th putting out fag/s	00:00:00 – 00:00:09	00:00:01 – 00:00:09	X
BB1785.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 5th putting out fag/s	00:00:00 – 00:00:09	00:00:01 – 00:00:07	X
BB1786.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes  - 1st dropping fags	00:00:00 – 00:00:09	00:00:01 – 00:00:09		X
BB1787.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 2nd dropping fags	00:00:00 – 00:00:10	00:00:01 – 00:00:10	X
BB1788.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 1st fags in shoes still	00:00:00 – 00:00:07	00:00:01 – 00:00:06	X
BB1789.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 1st dropping of drink	00:00:00 – 00:00:12	00:00:01 – 00:00:11		X
BB1790.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 2nd dropping of drink	00:00:00 – 00:00:12	00:00:01- 00:00:12	X
BB1791.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 1st throwing cup	00:00:00 – 00:00:08	00:00:01 – 00:00:07		X
BB1792.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 1st throwing drink	00:00:00 – 00:00:07	00:00:01 – 00:00:07	X
BB1793.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 2nd throwing drink	00:00:00 – 00:00:07	00:00:01 – 00:00:07	X
BB1794.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 3rd throwing drink	00:00:00 – 00:00:09	00:00:01 – 00:00:08		X
BB1795.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 1st throwing cups + straws	00:00:00 – 00:00:09	00:00:01 – 00:00:09	X
BB1796.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 2nd throwing cups + straws	00:00:00 – 00:00:07	00:00:01 00:00:07		X
BB1797.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes  - 3rd throwing cups  + straws	00:00:00 – 00:00:08	00:00:01 – 00:00:08	X
BB1798.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 1st condoms still	00:00:00 – 00:00:10	00:00:01  - 00:00:09	X
BB1799.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 1st throwing condoms	00:00:00 – 00:00:10	00:00:01 – 00:00:09		X
BB1800.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 2nd throwing condoms	00:00:00 – 00:00:09	00:00:01 – 00:00:09	X
BB1801.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 1st throwing pants + still condoms	00:00:00 – 00:00:05	00:00:01 00:00:05			X
BB1802.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 2nd throwing pants + still condoms	00:00:00 – 00:00:07	00:00:01 – 00:00:07		X
BB1803.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 3rd throwing pants + still condoms	00:00:00 – 00:00:05	00:00:01 – 00:00:05		X
BB1804.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 4th throwing pants + still condoms	00:00:00 – 00:00:06	00:00:01 – 00:00:05	X
BB1805.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 1st throwing pants	00:00:00 – 00:00:05	00:00:00 – 00:00:05	X
BB1806.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 2nd throwing pants	00:00:00 – 00:00:06	00:00:00 – 00:00:04	X
BB1807.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 1st pants still	00:00:00 – 00:00:06	00:00:01 – 00:00:05	X
BB1808.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 1st sick throwing	00:00:00 – 00:00:11	00:00:01 – 00:00:10		X
BB1809.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 2nd sick throwing	00:00:00 – 00:00:11	00:00:01  - 00:00:08	X
BB1810.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 1st picking heels up	00:00:00 – 00:00:07	00:00:01 – 00:00:06	X
BB1811.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 2nd picking heels up	00:00:00 – 00:00:08	00:00:01 – 00:00:07	X
BB1812.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 1st Breaking the shoe	00:00:00 – 00:00:20	N/A			X
BB1813.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 1st broken shoes	00:00:00 – 00:00:07	00:00:01 – 00:00:06		X
BB1814.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes -1st throwing broken shoes	00:00:00 – 00:00:05	00:00:00 – 00:00:05		X
BB1815.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes -2nd throwing broken shoes	00:00:00 – 00:00:04	00:00:00 – 00:00:03		X
BB1816.MXF Cannon XF305 Billie’s shoes - 3rd throwing broken shoes	00:00:00 – 00:00:07	00:00:01 – 00:00:07	X
BB1817.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s shoes 1st – throwing of paper	00:00:00 – 00:00:06	00:00:01 – 00:00:06	X
BB1818.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s shoes 2nd – throwing of paper	00:00:00 – 00:00:05	00:00:01 – 00:00:05		X
BB1819.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s shoes 3rd – throwing of paper	00:00:00 – 00:00:07	00:00:01 – 00:00:07		X
BB1820.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s shoes 4th – throwing of paper	00:00:00 – 00:00:05	00:00:01 – 00:00:05			X
BB1821.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s shoes 5th – throwing of paper	00:00:00 – 00:00:07	00:00:01 – 00:00:07	X
BB1822.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s shoes 1st – tickets	00:00:00 – 00:00:07	00:00:01 – 00:00:06	X
BB1823.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s shoes 2nd – tickets	00:00:00 – 00:00:05	00:00:01 – 00:00:05		X
BB1824.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s shoes 3rd – tickets	00:00:00 – 00:00:09	00:00:01 – 00:00:09		X
BB1825.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s shoes 4th – tickets	00:00:00 – 00:00:05	N/A			X
BB1826.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s shoes 5th – tickets	00:00:00 – 00:00:07	00:00:01 – 00:00:03	X
BB1827.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s shoes 6th – tickets	00:00:00 – 00:00:05	N/A			X
BB1828.MXF Cannon X305 Katherine’s shoes 1st – pens thrown	00:00:00 – 00:00:06	00:00:02 – 00:00:06		X
BB1829.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s Shoes 2nd – pens thrown	00:00:00 – 00:00:06	00:00:01 – 00:00:05	X
BB1830.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s Shoes 3rd – pens thrown	00:00:00 – 00:00:04	00:00:00 – 00:00:04		X
BB1831.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s Shoes 4th – pens thrown	00:00:00 – 00:00:06	00:00:01 – 00:00:05		X
BB1832.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s Shoes 5th – pens thrown	00:00:00 – 00:00:05	00:00:00 – 00:00:03			X
BB1833.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s Shoes 6th – pens thrown	00:00:00 – 00:00:16	00:00:01 – 00:00:15	X
BB1834.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s Shoes 7th – pens thrown	00:00:00 – 00:00:15	00:00:07 – 00:00:14			X
BB1835.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s Shoes 8th – pens thrown	00:00:00 – 00:00:19	00:00:02 – 00:00:17			X
BB1836.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s Shoes 1st – pens and paper still	00:00:00 – 0:00:07	00:00:01 – 00:00:06	X
BB1837.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s Shoes 1st – coffee granules thrown	00:00:00 – 00:00:10	00:00:01 – 00:00:08		X
BB1838.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s Shoes 2nd – coffee granules thrown	00:00:00 – 00:00:10	00:00:01 – 00:00:08		X
BB1839.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s Shoes 3rd – coffee granules thrown	00:00:00 – 00:00:06	00:00:01 – 00:00:05			X
BB1840.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s Shoes 4th – coffee granules thrown	00:00:00 – 00:00:05	00:00:01- 00:00:05	X
BB1841.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s Shoes 1st – coffee granules still	00:00:00 – 00:00:15	00:00:02 – 00:00:13	X
BB1842.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s Shoes 2nd – coffee granules still	00:00:00 – 00:00:04	00:00:01 – 00:00:03		X
BB1843.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s Shoes 5th – coffee granules thrown	00:00:00 – 00:00:05	00:00:01 – 00:00:04	X
BB1844.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s Shoes 6th – coffee granules thrown	00:00:00 – 00:00:06	00:00:01 – 00:00:05		X
BB1845.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s Shoes 1st – polish	00:00:00 – 00:00:12	00:00:01 -00:00:12	X
BB1846.MXF Cannon XF305 Katherine’s Shoes 2nd - polish	00:00:00 – 00:00:13	00:00:01 – 00:00:12		X
BB1847.MXF Cannon XF305 Mary’s Shoes 1st – still shoes	00:00:00 – 00:00:13	00:00:01 – 00:00:12	X
BB1848.MXF Cannon XF305 Mary’s Shoes 1st – makeup placed by shoes	00:00:00 – 00:00:25	00:00:00 – 00:00:20		X
BB1849.MXF Cannon XF305 Mary’s Shoes 2nd – makeup placed by shoes	00:00:00 – 00:00:03	N/A			X
BB1850.MXF Cannon XF305 Mary’s Shoes 3rd – makeup placed by shoes	00:00:00 – 00:00:27	00:00:00 – 00:00:24	X
BB1851.MXF Cannon XF305 Mary’s Shoes 1st – makeup thrown into shoe	00:00:00 – 00:00:09	00:00:01 – 00:00:07	X
BB1852.MXF Cannon XF305 Mary’s Shoes 2nd – makeup thrown into shoe	00:00:00 – 00:00:07	00:00:00 – 00:00:07		X
BB1853.MXF Cannon XF305 Mary’s Shoes 1st – makeup still	00:00:00 – 00:00:02	00:00:01 – 00:00:02		X
BB1854.MXF Cannon XF305 Mary’s Shoes 1st – makeup dropped	00:00:00 – 00:00:12	00:00:00 – 00:00:12		X
BB1855.MXF Cannon XF305 Mary’s Shoes 2nd – makeup dropped	00:00:00 – 00:00:10	00:00:00 – 00:00:09	X
BB1856.MXF Cannon XF305 Mary’s Shoes 3rd – makeup dropped	00:00:00 – 00:00:08	00:00:00 – 00:00:07	X
BB1857.MXF Cannon XF305 Mary’s Shoes 4th – makeup dropped	00:00:00 – 00:00:14	00:00:01 – 00:00:13		X
BB1858.MXF Cannon XF305 Mary’s Shoes 1st – makeup powder	00:00:00 – 00:00:10	00:00:01 – 00:00:09	X
BB1859.MXF Cannon XF305 Mary’s Shoes 1st – coffee cups placed	00:00:00 – 00:00:11	00:00:00 – 00:00:09	X
BB1860.MXF Cannon XF305 Mary’s Shoes 2nd – coffee cups placed	00:00:00 – 00:00:11	00:00:01 – 00:00:10		X
BB1861.MXF Cannon XF305 Mary’s Shoes 1st – coffee cups still	00:00:00 – 00:00:08	00:00:01 – 00:00:07	X
BB1862.MXF Cannon XF305 Mary’s Shoes 1st – timer	00:00:00 – 00:00:34	00:00:14 – 00:00:31		X
BB1863.MXF Cannon XF305 Mary’s Shoes 1st – mirror and makeup still	00:00:00 – 00:00:11	00:00:01 – 00:00:10	X
BB1864.MXF Cannon XF305 Mary’s Shoes 1st – jumper placed down	00:00:00 – 00:00:07	00:00:01 – 00:00:06			X
BB1865.MXF Cannon XF305 Mary’s Shoes 2nd – jumper placed down	00:00:00 – 00:00:07	00:00:01 – 00:00:05	X
BB1866.MXF Cannon XF305 Mary’s Shoes 3rd – jumper placed down	00:00:00 – 00:00:07	00:00:01 – 00:00:06		X
BB1867.MXF Cannon XF305 Mary’s Shoes 1st – shoes facing away still	00:00:00 – 00:00:14	00:00:02 – 00:00:12		X
BB1868.MXF Cannon XF305 Umor’s Shoes 1st – shoes still	00:00:00 – 00:00:14	00:00:02 -00:00:12	X
BB1869.MXF Cannon XF305 Umor’s Shoes 1st – hammer hit shoe	00:00:00 – 00:00:08	00:00:01- 00:00:06			X
BB1870.MXF Cannon XF305 Umor’s Shoes 2nd – hammer hit shoe	00:00:00- 00:00:07	00:00:01- 00:00:05		X
BB1871.MXF Cannon XF305 Umor’s Shoes 1st – crisps	00:00:00 – 00:00:12	00:00:01 – 00:00:10	X
BB1872.MXF Cannon XF305 Umor’s Shoes 2nd - crisps	00:00:00 – 00:00:07	00:00:01 – 00:00:06		X
BB1873.MXF Cannon XF305 Umor’s Shoes 3rd - crisps	00:00:00 – 00:00:10	00:00:04- 00:00:09	X
BB1874.MXF Cannon XF305 Umor’s Shoes 1st – tobacco still	00:00:00 – 00:00:16	00:00:02 – 00:00:14		X
BB1875.MXF Cannon XF305 Umor’s Shoes 2nd – tobacco still	00:00:00 – 00:00:12	00:00:01 – 00:00:11	X
BB1876.MXF Cannon XF305 Umor’s Shoes 1st – tobacco sprinkled down	00:00:00 – 00:00:12	N/A			X
BB1877.MXF Cannon XF305 Umor’s Shoes 2nd – tobacco sprinkled down	00:00:00 – 00:00:06	00:00:00 – 00:00:05		X
BB1878.MXF Cannon XF305 Umor’s Shoes 1st – tobacco sprinkled and cigarette stubbed out	00:00:00 – 00:00:08	00:00:00 – 00:00:06	X
BB1879.MXF Cannon XF305 Umor’s Shoes 1st – cigarette lit	00:00:00 – 00:00:10	N/A			X
BB1880.MXF Cannon XF305 Umor’s Shoes 2nd – cigarette lit	00:00:00 – 00:00:10	00:00:00 – 00:00:09	X
BB1881.MXF Cannon XF305 Umor’s Shoes 1st – energy drink opened	00:00:00 – 00:00:10	00:00:01 – 00:00:09		X
BB1882.MXF Cannon XF305 Umor’s Shoes 1st – Shoe still ???	00:00:00 – 00:00:03	N/A			X
BB1883.MXF Cannon XF305 Umor’s Shoes 1st – water splash	00:00:00 – 00:00:07	00:00:01 – 00:00:06	X
BB1884.MXF Cannon XF305 Umor’s Shoes 2nd – water splash	00:00:00 – 00:00:08	00:00:01 – 00:00:06		X
BB1885.MXF Cannon XF305 Umor’s Shoes 1st – energy drink poured	00:00:00 – 00:00:10	00:00:01 – 00:00:09	X
BB1886.MXF Cannon XF305 Umor’s Shoes 1st – wet shoes still (can sound)	00:00:00 – 00:00:07	00:00:04 – 00:00:07			X
BB1887.MXF Cannon XF305 Umor’s Shoes 1st – smash drinks can	00:00:00 – 00:00:08	00:00:01 – 00:00:06	X
BB1888.MXF Cannon XF305 Umor’s Shoes 2nd – smash drinks can	00:00:00 – 00:00:09	00:00:01 – 00:00:07		X

and also the Go Pro logs:

NAME	DURATIONS	CUTS	YES	MAYBE	NO
GOPRO0002.MP4 – 1st test go pro	00:00:00 – 00:00:12	N/A			X
GOPRO0003.MP4 – 2nd test go pro	00:00:00 – 00:00:02	N/A			X
GOPRO0004.MP4 – 3rd test go pro	00:00:00 – 00:00:15	N/A			X
GOPRO0005.MP4 – 1st skate go pro on front board of feet	00:00:00 – 00:01:34	00:00:02 – 00:00:28 00:00:41 – 00:00:58	X X
GOPRO0006.MP4 – 2nd skate go pro on front board of landscape + in hand	00:00:00 – 00:01:28	00:00:18 – 00:00:27 00:01:04 – 00:01:17	X	X
GOPRO0007.MP4 – 3rd skate go pro in hand	00:00:00 – 00:01:54	00:00:24 – 00:00:58	X
GOPRO0009.MP4 – 1st car go pro shot mount by peddles facing seat	00:00:00 – 00:07:51	00:01:46 – 00:03:05	X
GOPRO0010.MP4 – go pro mounting in car test	00:00:00 – 00:00:52	N/A			X
GOPRO0011.MP4 -  go pro, changing mount position to behind feet	00:00:00 – 00:12:00	00:01:08 – 00:08:03	X
GOPRO0012.MP4 - go pro 2nd behind feet	00:00:00 – 00:12:00	00:00:09 – 00:01:24	X
GOPR0013.MP4 - 1ST filming hands whilst driving	00:00:00 – 00:11:25	00:02:38 – 00:02:59		X
GOPR0014.MP4 - 2nd filming hands whilst driving	00:00:00 – 00:01:17	00:00:08 – 00:01:12		X
GPO10011.MP4 - Go Pro 1st fail	00:00:00 – 00:09:30	N/A			X
GP010012.MP4 - Go Pro 2nd fail	00:00:00 – 00:12:00	N/A			X
GP020012.MP4 - Go Pro 3rd fail	00:00:00 – 00:04:48	N/A			X

Editing Day 3 (11/04/16):

Now that all the logs were done we began editing a rough cut. As I was the Editor this was primarily down to me to do. I decided what would be best was to edit one story at a time before merging them all together. I also thought if I have each person sit with me and offer there opinion whilst I am putting together their specific story then that would help get everyone's input involved. I firstly sat alone and put together my own story for the night out pair of shoes. This took me a couple of hours but I found it fairly easy because I had the logs to help find footage and I knew how I wanted to tell my story. I am also very comfortable with Premier Pro now as well:

I then after I had finished had Umor come and meet me and we sat together whilst I put his story together with his input. He told me how he wanted it to look and work and I made it happen. His story again took a couple of hours, maybe slightly longer than my own but that's only because he was less sure on his story of the skater:

Once we had these two story's laid out we called it a day and decided to come back to the other stories the next day.

Editing Day 4 (12/04/16):

Today I had two story's left to put together which was Mary's date and Katherine's office. I began putting Katherine's story together whilst she was there with me to help. She left a lot of it primarily up to me but just told me the narrative. I worked it out from them but I made sure to keep asking her opinion as I was doing it just to check she was happy:

Again her story only took a few hours and soon I moved on to Mary's story. Again Mary left a lot of it up to me and she just told me the rough narrative and I went from there. I again did also keep checking everything with her to keep her involved:

Once this was done we had each story put together. I made sure to have each story roughly the length of a minute and 30 seconds each so that it was an even spread of material. I then sat with Mary and Umor and we tried to figure out the best way of combining all 4 story's. We decided that even though originally we wanted some really nice continuity cuts so as one foot steps out of frame the next story begins stepping in to frame etc but we didn't have enough clips that matched up so we couldn't. We then went with a more simplistic idea of cutting each story into 4 sections which made sense and then finding the best order/structure to mix these 4 sections in and amongst each other to make it flow. I made some notes to try and help us figure this out: 

We then cut them up and on a new sequence put them together the way we had decided. This roughly came to 6 minuets long which was an okay length as our rough cut. However when we watched it back we realised that the pace of it was far too slow and it wasn't visually working the way we wanted it to:

We showed our tutor and then discussed that it was too long and we needed to cut out everything unnecessary to the plot or visuals. Also the reason it didn't look right was because for most the memories we had done them as overlays on top of the location footage which just made the screen look too crowded and dark. Instead she suggested we just use them as cutaways which we all agreed with. Lastly we discussed that the sound scape will have a big part to play in this piece so the pace will pick up once we have that added on to it. Even though I am not too happy with the rough cut I think we have got to a point where we know exactly what we want and need to change to make it better and make it more the way we want which we will begin doing next session.

Editing Day 5 (18/04/16):

Today the main goal was to make all the improvements that we had discussed in the previous session with our Tutor. I began by discussing this with all the group and we all agreed on the changes I wanted to make cutting out and cutting down a lot of pointless material or material that wasn't visually pleasing enough. I also wanted to take out most the overlays and instead have the story cut away to the studio memories. I generally wanted it cutting a lot faster too which meant having clips up for only as long as was needed to get the point across. Whilst I began to make these changes I left Umor to begin looking into the sounds we recorded and thinking of ways we could make a sound scape and what kind of thing to do. I also left Mary thinking about the Tile Sequence and the Credits as she had offered to do this. I made all the changes relatively fast and kept showing it to the group getting there opinion on it until we were all a lot happier with what we had. We then moved on to discussing the titles and credits. Mary talked me through some of her ideas and I then talked through some of my and we made a brainstorm about it:

She then went away and started working on it. we decided on some kind of split screen at the end with credits in the spaces and then at the beginning we wanted it simple with each pair of shoes flashing up one by one and then the title which we decided was 'Inanimate'. We liked 'Inanimate' because its talking about how the shoes are inanimate objects however this is ironic because in our piece we are trying to give the shoes their own personality and show memories through this. I then discussed with Umor the sound scape and we came to the conclusion that we needed it to be quite abstract but it also had to help the piece move along so basically having a combination of all the sounds the characters would be hearing. We went away for the day know that tomorrow we needed to put the titles on the piece, colour correct and make a sound scape.

Editing Day 6 (19/04/16):

As soon as I got in today Mary was ready to show me a rough version of what she had made for the titles and credits. I was really happy with the end credits however I just had to help her put all the correct names on there for everyone we needed to thank such as all the actors:

I also liked what she had done for the titles but the pace was a little off so I just got her to adjust this as well. While we worked on that Umor was working on the sound scape. Once I was happy with the credits and titles I left Mary to add them to our Final Cut and I went and helped Umor with sound instead. He showed me some of what he got but he hadn't really kept it abstract like we discussed and instead it was more like sound effects. We decided to start again together as a team and I began thinking of ways to keep it more abstract. I was really struggling and so was Umor because sound isn't our area of expertise. After many hours of playing about we realised we just didn't have enough sound effects anyway and we decided to have another discussion with the tutor. She suggested that we needed to start thinking of all the sounds that the character would hear through out each scene and if we didn't have a recording of it we should either get a recorder out and do it or find sound effects on the internet that are non copyright. The group agreed with this plan and decided to leave editing for today and come back the next day refreshed and ready to start on sound again.

Editing Day 7 (20/04/16):

Today I set Mary the task of colour correcting and adjusting the exposure on our final cut while me and Umor worked on the sound. We decided to begin by going through all the sounds already part of the videos and mute the audio we didn't want and adjust the volumes to be correct on any of it we knew we wanted. This took a while because we had to go through listening to the audio of each clip on the sequence one by one debating if we wanted it and adjusting it. When we were happy we then went through the story making a plan/brainstorm of all the other sounds we could add which would add to the story:

We then followed this plan and put any sound effects we had that matched it in where we thought it would work. We then spent a lot of time trying to source off the internet all the other sound effects we wanted but hadn't got sound recordings of. We used a website called free sound and also some off sound cloud as well. Once we had gathered all the sounds we  wanted we began adding these into the audio sequence too. Mary had by this time finished the colour grading and exposure setting so I checked that all over for her. I was very happy with the results and as far as I was concerned all the visuals were now finalized. It was just the sound track which we needed to finish. Mary then helped us with the sound track by manipulating some copyright free songs for us on Audition so that it matched the location. We had one song manipulated to make it sound like it was coming from headphones for the skate boarder. We then had 2 other songs manipulated for the party scenes by distorting them to give it the feeling of drunkenness. We got about half way through the sound scape but as it was quite late in the day at this point Umor offered to finish the sound track off according to my plan himself that evening and then send it to us so we could all listen the next day and see if we liked it.

Editing Day 8 (21/04/16):

Umor sent the MP3 of his version of the finished Sound Scape to us this morning. We all listened and I decided that it was still far too empty and he had missed some sounds out that we had planned to use. I decided to call the team in again (however Katherine was still ill) and we went through the sound track changing it and trying to improve it as we were running out of time considering this was due the following day. We let Mary have control over the sound this time as we felt like her input would be valuable as she is essentially a fresh pair of ears to it because she had only heard it today because she was working on visuals till now. She came up with some more sound effects which we could add in and this helped to pad it out a lot. We then spent a lot of time working on the sound levels because it had been too quiet in places and too loud in others. We used the bars and tone to help us check this. We were then as happy as we could be with the sound because essentially we ran out of time so we put it into our final cut and thankfully it matched up with the visuals perfectly. Lastly we just had to find some non-copyright music to put over our end credits which we decided something more upbeat was appropriate because even though the piece appears serious at first it does then become quite cheeky and comedic in places. Now that we were all happy with it we exported it and we were done!!! 

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This editing process has taken a lot longer than I thought it would however I am happy how much we have managed to develop it from where we began. We used as much time as we could trying to push the piece further however I feel like what may have let us down slightly was all the issues we had with the sound scape. I am still not happy with it but I knew in the time frame we had that was the best thing we could achieve. I think if we did it again I would start the sound scape much earlier on in the process to allow it to develop a lot more.