Editing Weekend

This weekend, I have been given the MAC to take home with me so that I can get on with all the editing that there is left to do. With the quickening tempo, the scenes i have been including have been getting more violent. I felt this change in music would create emphasis on the drama of the scenes and increase the impact. I felt it would really build up the severity of the actions being portrayed in the clips of abuse.

Splitting the clips at the exact right moment to ensure that the lip synching is perfect is proving to be the most time consuming thing as it is a lengthy process that relies on trial and error until you get it completely right. It is a very important aspect of the video as if the timing is out, the credibility of the video is diminished and it becomes hard to take the whole video seriously as it makes it look amateur and unprofessional. Therefore I have made sure that I have spent a lot of time getting this right over the weekend of editing. It is also important that I have been arranging the clips in order to keep everything consistent and in time. If I go back over a clip, this will rearrange the rest of the clips that follow and they will then be out of sync.

I have been continuing to dim the lighting on the abusive husband scenes to establish the difference in mood and create the impact and tension that I hope to create. I have also now reached the flash back scene which I have edited and am very pleased with the outcome. I have compiled a number of clips of Eddie and Bethany arguing or fighting and have then including the "flash" effect so that each clip has a flash between. It is very dramatic and I feel looks very effective.

Something else which I have edited today is the scene where we see Eddie have a breakdown. Within this breakdown Eddie shakes his bottle, to spill the contents over the floor. I noticed when listening to the song that there is a part in the song where there is around 5 or 6 drum instrumental bangs. I decided to put his "bottle shake" clip with the drum sounds as every shake of the bottle has a dramatic beat behind it and I think it goes together perfectly. It is something that I really like about the video, and although it is only subtle and would probably go unnoticed by most viewers, I feel it is really effective and is my favorite part of the entire video. This part comes at 2 minutes 50 seconds into the video.

Today I managed to complete the editing for all of the video. We will now share this with our class and get their feedback. In a few months we will come back to our video and review some possible changes that we can make.