Struggles with arranging footage
Through our editing Kat and I have found it hard to properly arrange our footage. We both know what we want, and it happens to be the same thing, but arranging the clips in different orders can change how the audience view the whole two minute opening all together. Our annitial ideas we to have a non leinear structure (something we're still trying to archive) but we have changed our footage around three times, after completing each editing attempt fully before changing it again.
This has caused us to find it hard to keep within our time limit because of trying to find the perfect way to structure our footage.
When we first started to film and order everything in the way we wanted to through the editing, we both followed the storyline/story board, basing the script off our original ideas, and thought that that arrangement was the best way.
Kat and I looked st the way we had placed things and it looked more like a trailer than the opening two minutes of a film (we also had no film idents at the time) and it looked like we were trying to fit the whole film into the two minutes. It was clear that we had to film some new footage and cut some of the original stuff out because it was too long. We hadn't made it clear how Cara was in a bed, injured, and the music being played underneath everything was also copywrited.
Things needed to be changed, when we changed things for the second time we had filmed more footage, more memories between Cara and Daniel and the car crash scene. We needed to move everything about, adding the idents, new clips, voice over and new un-branded music.
Kat and I completed this, almost looking perfect, until we realised that we had moved everything around so much, the only clips that made the two minute opening non linear were the memories, we'd put everything else to the end of the clip.
Once realising that that we had made a clip that was more linear than we'd hoped we changed it around again, starting the film with sad music instead of up best music, putting the clip of Cara laying on the floor after the crash first, then playing the crash after... and so forth with the original lots of film. Using two bits of music in our film, and changing the beginning around and the music around has changed or film allot from what we'd thought it'd be, and the original 'put together'.
Overall we are glad that we have trialled and failed and made ourselves better, we have progressed and improved in not only our clip but knowing how to film and edit. We both weren't highly experienced but we have developed and become better. '
Things needed to be changed, when we changed things for the second time we had filmed more footage, more memories between Cara and Daniel and the car crash scene. We needed to move everything about, adding the idents, new clips, voice over and new un-branded music.
Kat and I completed this, almost looking perfect, until we realised that we had moved everything around so much, the only clips that made the two minute opening non linear were the memories, we'd put everything else to the end of the clip.
Once realising that that we had made a clip that was more linear than we'd hoped we changed it around again, starting the film with sad music instead of up best music, putting the clip of Cara laying on the floor after the crash first, then playing the crash after... and so forth with the original lots of film. Using two bits of music in our film, and changing the beginning around and the music around has changed or film allot from what we'd thought it'd be, and the original 'put together'.
Overall we are glad that we have trialled and failed and made ourselves better, we have progressed and improved in not only our clip but knowing how to film and edit. We both weren't highly experienced but we have developed and become better. '
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