Girl Happy - Editing 20.04.18

On Friday Myself and Maisie met with Tilly to show her the edit we had put together which was improved since she last saw it making changes based on feedback from herself and others including tutors and then making our own judgement calls on the piece. We showed her and firstly we began by fixing the titles and credits in the way she wanted as the documents we had been working forms with the names and roles weren't 100% complete or accurate. This took us some time to adjust and play around with to make sure this was correct now. We then let Tilly watch the entire piece through and see what she thought. She took notes as she did so and then instructed us on minor tweaks and changes to make to the edit to improve further still. A lot of it was simply cutting out/down shots which weren't looking up to standard for example shots with focus and shake problems as we made the decision that even if we lost some detail about the characters or story at least the piece will flow better and look more professional through out. It is just a shame that some shots could have been done a lot better with a proper focus pull or tripod used etc but we have spent a lot of time working around this and finding the best sections of shots were there aren't any mistakes or problems so thankfully this shouldn't be a noticeable problem to any viewer now. We then got people to view it to check that the story was defiantly understandable and that there were no mistakes we may have missed. Then we agreed upon this edit and picture locked it. We then exported a low resolution version of the vide with stamped in timecode and a AF sound file for the sound team to begin working on as soon as possible. This ended up taking longer than we realise to create/export these file types specially as we had some minor hard drive compatibly issues too. However we got these files sorted in the end so that the sound team can begin however we ran out of time to export the full res version and the file needed for the colour grader as this would take at least a few hours. We have spoke to the colourist and made the plan to come in early on Monday and export during the day while working on other things. Then Tilly will take the files on her hard drive to London on Tuesday morning to meet the colourist and transfer them to her hard drive so she can begin work. Other jobs we have also realised we must do on Monday before this final export is to add a few missing extra's names into the credits and add in the animations to the opening title sequence if Tilly is able to get an animator to complete them by then. We hopefully will also have time to double check everything in a few weeks time hen we get the sound and the colour graded film back so we can put it together, add bars and tones, check it over and export the finished version officially. Then in the slightly further future I will be re-editing potentially with Maisie again to short the piece more so that it can be entered into more film festivals as it is currently 20 minutes long and this isn't very film festival appropriate. Roll on Monday! Lets keep this moving forward!