Editing

EDIT 1
This week we began logging and capturing our footage. The exterior scene seemed to come out fairly well and it will now be a job of determining the pace and adding on approiate music. There seemed to a small amount of trouble with the interior scene but hopefully we can devise a solution.

EDIT 2
On this edit we added on the dialogue and music to accompany it. In places the sound wasn't loud enough and our voices were drowned out which meant that we probably had to re-record the dialogue. Also the first music choice we had, 'Mausum Escape', sounded a bit too much like indian music and meant that it probably didn't fit in with the tone of our film.

EDIT 3
On this edit we re-recorded all the necessary sound such as dialogue, voice over, the struggle and light switches and placed it on our film. We also put on titles for the first time and this meant that we thought the film was starting to come together.

EDIT 4
After showing the film to our lecturer, he commented that the pace of the film (the editing and high tempo music) made it seem more like a trailer than the opening of a film noir. Our group experimented with different music as a result and found that a slower tempo track, 'Clues' (our eventual final choice), worked better as it gave the film a darker more mysterious and possibly more threatening tone. However some of our shots still seemed a little jumbled in terms of narrative and the pace was a little eratic.

EDIT 5
Our director suggested that we could place the interior shots first to establish the character and then proceed to the exterior shots rather than cutting between them. This helped to establish our main character and made it clearer that the exterior shots were a flashback.

EDIT 6
We had arranged all the scenes and had finalised the music and voice over and proceeded to screen it to some of our fellow classmates. Their response was mainly positive but they did point out a couple of sound errors which needed to be corrected as well as tidying up a few transitions. They seemed comfortable with the story and the enigma of what the motivation was for the 'stalker' to lay the trap on this man and which of the characters was killed at the end of the struggle.

FINAL EDIT
We made the necessary modifications to sound and cuts as well as finalising the order and look of our titles. We then screened the film to the rest of our class for feedback which would enable us to write up our evaluation.