Editing session 2

In the second editing session, I decided to put the different shots in order and began the editing chronologically, in order to sift out any problems, due to the fact that we could then see where the problems lay and which shots we were actually missing. it is through this that we found out that we were missing around 20 seconds of shots. This meant that we had to film extra shots of fire due to the song being 'firestarter' it would wrong not to do so. With this in mind, I continued to piece together my shots and then incorporated the flashback, which was in colour and decided to use a bright light fade in, due to the fact that it has the stereotypical connotations of being a flashback sequence entry point, which was a somewhat dreamlike fade which rippled. A bright light which blinded the screen and with the continuity worked well in order to make it flow from present to past. I attempted to make the editing for this as smooth as possible, due to the fact that the shots were HD unlike the present shots. The reason that the shots in the present day are blurry and unfocused, is due to the fact that when he lost the love of the woman in his life, his life and emotions became unclear and or distorted. It represents the loss of clarity that the protagonist has and works better when I put the black and white filter on it. The shots in the past were put together and i had to finely tune it in order to make it flow correctly. After this I continued on attempting to edit the scenes where there was the most singing, due to the fact that they were the most difficult as I had to get the continuity by matching the soundtrack which we had on there with the shots and sometimes audio was slightly off so I had to slow down one of our clips in order to make it fit with the song as our artist was singing too fast in the clip. Callum then inserted some more clips and attempted to add continuity and we both made executive decisions, looking over the clips and any changes that needed to be made, Callum cut the shots down and made them work by using the splice tool to his advantage and getting the most out of all of our shots