After receiving all the footage from the production team, it was my turn to bring the work together. I started by going through all the footage, labelling and sorting out the bins. The first time I was given the footage, there were several things wrong or missing with the footage.
For example, I noticed a lot of continuity problems which would have been impossible for me to edit together, such as, for example, in the house, certain features would jump, the camera broke the 180 degree rule and jumped to the other side of the character, which if I noticed as the editor, the audience would notice.
Luckily we had enough time to reshoot the shots we were missing or needed re-doing. The second batch of raw footage was much better, especially the house scenes, as the lighting and actor looked much better. However I did run into a problem with the emotion between the different takes. In the first set of footage, the actor did some amazing work with emotion when hearing the bad news of being rejected from the job, however the shots were too dark and the character looked slightly rougher than we wanted initially. The second set was well lit, the actor looked much better, however the emotional performance wasn't as good as the first set. So, with the producer, we went through and decided which would be the better option to take. We decided on using the first batch and working with a little colour correction to brighten it up. This is because we saw that the emotion of the character was more important for the drama within the piece than the shot, however this shouldn't be a choice we had to make, and if we had have had more time, I'd have asked my team to re-shoot this again and hopefully get more emotion and a better composition.
After all the footage was labelled and sorted into files, I started the rough assembly by following the script. There were some changes in regard to shots, where I followed some of the storyboard and script alternatively to make it work to the best of my ability. I created a rough cut with the sound recorded at the shoot, however Alex had spent time re-recording the audio and wanted to work on the sound design separately, so in regard to sound, I worked with a template to complete the picture edit in time to give to Alex.
The rough cut was then reviewed by Annie, as well as the Director and I then started to work on the Fine Cut. This process required trimming the footage, precisely, ensuring everything synced together as well as colour correcting the shots to fit together and create the same emotion and feeling throughout. For example, when we Matt on his way home, we wanted the shots to be a warmer colour, which most of them were, but some needed a little colour added to them to fit with the rest. This was because we wanted to create a happy, excited up-beat emotion for the audience during these scenes, because we want them to feel hopeful for him, and therefore feel happy that he's happy about how the interview went. And then when it came to the house scenes, we wanted a more blue/white colour on, because we wanted the audience to feel shock almost, sad for him that he didn't get the job, empathise with him, and see his angry reaction in a sympathetic way, and by using colour correction to adapt the shots, I think this helped bring this across.
After making sure the edit was good with the producer and director, I gave the new fine cut to Alex for sound design. When Alex had finished with his sound design, I made sure everything still worked together as an edit and did a finer cut, including some sound design myself before exporting for presentation.
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