Edit 3

We had another 'editing sunday'.

This was a very productive day, seeing as we can't get much work done in school because the edit stations are shared. We avoided this problem by having the work saved on a portable hard drive, so that any mac with Final Cut could read and edit our clips. This let us work in school and at my studio. We decided to make use of the sundays because everyone was free.

We managed to get down the basic structure of it all, we took it in turns to edit various sections.
Heres some screenshots of what we did

On this picture in the centre box, you can see an audio file as we chop the bad bits out and adjust the volume

We're adjusting the colour on this clip, as the white balance was slightly off, and i wanted to have the shaving foam and the shirt very white to symbolise purity, as if he hadn't done anything wrong.

This is just before he cuts himself. We needed to change the colour again to make the blood look real enough. We had used food colouring on the edge of a razor, and it was far too bright for our liking.

                            This is our entire audio track. As you can see we have a lot to work with.

Edit 2

We edited for another 5 hours today, we managed to get a lot of work done. It was productive as everyone had the same ideas, and it just seemed to click all of a sudden.
We've done about half of the edit now, and we're happy with what we have.

Initial Mindmap

This was our initial mind-map which prompted the first group meeting. We each brainstormed out individual ideas, then compromised with each other as we combined them together. That way everyone was happy, and the film would be equally shared.

Film Idea

Georgia came up with the idea of finding a body in a car boot. This seemed to get everyones attention, because its easy to pull off, with minimal costs, and because i can drive we could film it on location wherever we wanted. I added the idea that we should present him as a normal man, who leads a secret life of murder. Luke added the idea that he worked for someone else, and was meerly doing a job of kidnapping someone, and delivering them to a destination. We combined all these ideas and came up with a script and shot list:

The title sequence opens to a man shaving in the mirror. This presents him as a normal man. He then does his tie in the mirror. this will be a 180* shot, which is extreamly hard to pull off with a mirror. He then grabs his car keys, sais goodbye to his wife and gets in his car. He drives to an industrial state, where he pulls up and opens his boot. Theres a body in the back, screaming and struggaling to get out. this is where the sequence ends.

Edit adjustments

I started to adjust the edited section of out movie. I didn't edit any new footage, because it would of been without the groups consent.
I mainly mixed the audio, recolored the clips, and tightened the cuts. It took a while to render because i used a my own high quality camera. After 4 hours I called it a day

Edit 1, take 2

We got everything plugged in and working, and we began the edit.

The first thing we did was go through every clip as a team and mark every out-take, and eliminated them from the media bin, to make things less confusing.
We began the edit. 5 hours later we had a rough copy of the first quarter.
It was the we started to see the magnitude of the task ahead.

First Day Editing

We decided that we would both work in school, and at my studio. We figured that when it got to the later weeks of editing, it would be stressful to have too share a mac with another editing team, as editing takes a vast amount of time. We did this by hosting the clips on an external hard drive, so that we could take the edit to whatever computer we wanted too.

We decided to start the edit early at my studio,  so that we could get ahead of other groups. However, we encountered a big problem on the day. I was using the microphone to record a song the day before, and i'd left the output voltage switched on, which meant that when i plugged in the computer to the studio speakers, i gave myself an electric shock. This created an electrical fault between the mixer and the speakers, which had to be resolved before the edit. We canceled the day until we could safely work in the studio.