Editing

Problems we faced during editing:

• We filmed a shot of our actor running across the road and down the street whilst we panned the camera round to follow her. However this made our actor mainly stay in the centre of the screen and so this caused some issues for us when we came to edit into a jump cut scene. As when we took a chunk out, we hoped it would look like she ran a long way, but because of our camera movement it only appears that small distance has been covered. To solve this we had about 0.8 seconds of her running, then cut out about 6 seconds in between the next running shot so that it looked as effective without it being unrealistic.

• When we inputted our chosen soundtrack over our video we quickly realised that the placement of the beat drop didn't fit the video as well as possible. If the music starts at the very beginning of our opening scene then this would cause it to drop when it zooms in our the headphones and so it looked very out of place. We hoped that the beat drop would happen during the swish shot to Tunbridge Wells, however if this happened then there would be no music at the start. And so we compromised and had a couple of seconds silent at the start which resulted to beat dropping when our actor stood up out of her chair which worked well.

• Our next problem, was with the dialogue at the end. Without the footage we filmed, there is significant background noise which you can hear when our actors say their line. This white noise meant that we had to mute the whole clip and record a voice over on the top of it. It took a couple of tries for the audio to match up with video perfectly, but when it did this increased the quality massively as there is very minimal background noise which also meant we could increase the volume of the dialogue so that it was clear to hear, as well as fading in and out the music between each line.