Editing Process

Mitch has been our main editing man during the course of our opening sequence, while my self and Jonny have had a go ourselves to share up the tasks but Mitch proved to be much quicker and more familiar with the way the editing works. In a previous lesson, we provided a rough cut to the class and teacher. This gave them their first taste of what our film was going to entail. We found this process very helpful due to the fact that constructive criticism came back aswell as alot of good points. We have made the audiences response one of our main priorities so that we can create the best film possible, and the feedback came back that we need to make one or two of our shots sharper and fasten it up a bit. Another one of our problems was we had a screen split into three seperate parts, each playing clips of our footage. The problem that arose from this was that it was too much for the audience to look at at once but just recently we have made adjustments to this and have found a substantial alternative to make sure it is easily viewed. At the time, being a rough cut, it made the group pose the question 'what is it really about?' and it bacame slightly unclear on what our purpose was. However, we did explain promptly afterwards that a voiceover was going to be inserted which will explain everything going on and make things a whole lot clearer. Mitch will be responsible for making the voiceover, we all agree that mitch has the best cockney accent to match and conform to the genre and explain everything fluently.
Just recently we have decided to abandon the idea of having two different backing tracks in our sequence. It didnt sound right in the end and there was a huge contrast when we had to change between one song and the other and it sounded unprofessional and not as good as it could be. It was a hard decision as to which song we were going to chose, we all, as a group, liked both songs equally as much, hence why we chose to have them both at first, but we came to a conclusion of having 'dirty harry- by the Gorrillas' as our main backing track. Once we played the whole sequence through again with just one backing track it was evident that it sounded much better and had an increased professional outcome and we found ourselves extremely satisfied with what we had achieved.