The Edit

The Last couple of weeks have been spent locked away in the editing suite (as well as editing in front of the TV from home) with Myles. As Myles was more experienced with using Final Cut, I played the part of Assistant Editor, offering suggestions and learning some of the more basic controls; enough so that I could just about string together a rough-round-the-edges edit. The end result was quite satisfactory, unfortunately there were a couple of things that we felt let it down.



The first of these was the music; after hours of searching royalty-free music sites, with a song in mind from Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) we settled on an 80's sounding track we found in the dying moments of the edit, when in hinesight we probably should have scrapped that idea and chosen one of the smoother 50's or 60's tracks that we came across. The other major issue was more out of our control, due to the weather on the weekend of our filming, this caused some inconsistency in the lighting of our film, which needed to be colour corrected. This was particularly the case in the alleyway sequence when Andy gets caught by Jay stealing a CCTV camera, as it was towards the end of the Saturday and the sun was just starting to set.

We had also intended to use the photos that Andy takes with the disposable camera in the film as an accompaniment to the credits, but ended up deciding against it. So I uploaded the photos to Flickr, so that they can still be enjoyed.

On the whole I am pleased to have the edit done and it has given me a better idea of how to prioritise our time better on the next film, such as looking for music earlier and perhaps knowing better when pick-ups will be needed on our shooting weekend. Anyway here is the final product.