Shoot 1 Interview – Editing

Firstly i started off by Placing all clips into the timeline and then putting them all together to create a rough draft. Whilst i was doing this i was also sinking up the audio recording to the clips so that i have better audio. (the audio dialogue is the green boxes underneath the clips)

I also added some markers where i know where my effects need to be placed. This is to help me find where i need to place them easily without sifting through the timeline.

I also had a safety clip where if anything went wrong in the first few takes i have a good take that i can use to replace the bad take ( what you can see on the left of the time line)

The last step i did in this screen shot was a basic log colour correction. This is to flatten out all the clips so that i can easily change the colours throughout the project without doing each clip individually.

Here i changed the colour theme to a bit darker and more realistic because this is a good way to portray comedy.

I then added sound effects to make everything feel more real and more like a short film. This is just a basic edited version but for now it works. I now need to film and edit my action sequences and place them in where the markers are.

Audio

From my reception theory blog i wanted to show the audience that they went back in time thought the use of sound.I used a warping sound effect here because it was the closest thing i could film to a travelling sound. I also added bass sound and pulsing to drag this out, making us think that the device he used to go back in time is powering down.

Problem

A problem that i faced when i just finished my interview segment is that i have broken the 180 degree rule.

What is the 180 degree rule:

”The 180–degree rule is a cinematography guideline that states that two characters in a scene should maintain the same left/right relationship to one another. When the camera passes over the invisible axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line and the shot becomes what is called a reverse angle.”

In my project I realized that in the interview the camera angles are different and should be the same both side. but they weren’t. I tried flipping one side of the clips around but it didn’t work. So I make the shots have the same focal point and it kinda works. You’re eyes aren’t looking around trying to find the characters, I showed my teacher and he said it works in a weird way. So I decided to keep it like this and export it as a draft.

Ref:

Indie Film Hustle. (2019). 180 Degree Rule – Understand the. [online] Available at: https://indiefilmhustle.com/180-degree-rule/ [Accessed 10 Jun. 2019].