Coursework Rough Cut 1

This cut marks the beginning of our editing process, in which we've only cut out the superfluous instructions and count-ins from the shots we chose. It was honestly quite surprising how many versions of each shot we had when we went back over them at the beginning, but in the end I'm satisfied that we picked the most effective of our options. It's somewhat annoying that some of the shots in our principle scene where the title will appear are skewed (a fact I mentioned before but which especially stands out from the thumbnail of the above video). I must concede this is my own fault for not checking how the ground looked in the frame as opposed to simply trusting the indicator on the camera stand. I'd like to consider reshooting this scene, but this is impossible due to the academic pressure our actresses are facing and the amount of concessions they've already had to make for us. I suppose we'll simply have to put this blunder down to experience.

The order of shots in this version remains somewhat confused as we have not yet cut everything together according to our storyboard. Aside from that, we clearly have a lot of deleting and shaving to do, as the present time of our work is over twice the length it should be. We also need to find a time to record our soundtrack so we can sync it up to the footage and seek alternatives if we decide it doesn't work. Personally, I'm not looking forward to the prospect of removing some of the more scenic shots we took, although I recognise this will probably be necessary. The synchronisation of the sound that we managed to seemingly magically achieve in the final scene is probably our collective proudest moment in terms of this first cut, and I'm pleased with the level of skill we've managed to exhibit in terms of matching the audio patterns up despite our previous failures to do anything of even remotely similar quality. It seems practice does, in fact, make (nearly) perfect.

AF & DY