Edit 1

The first cut we have done is showing the first draft we have made for our film and how it is going.




This version of our editing is good but we know that it is still missing a few key elements. For example it is missing music, the titles and a few key techniques like match on action and shot reverse shot that makes the flow of the opening sequence a more continuous effect.

Learning Comment:

The music that we would be using is the music that we had chosen on the music section of my blog. However when getting feedback from our peers and teachers, we have concluded that the music choice is a bit too christmassy for our opening sequence, so we are going to use a more mllow, but still christmassy themed song. Despite the rhythm of the song fitting with the cuts between shots, it doesn't sum up the mood and atmosphere quite right for the sequence. 

On top of this we have noticed that the match on action part of our sequence isn't smooth enough and so doesn't help towards creating a sense of continuity throughout the sequence. Therefore we are going to meet up again and just film a couple more parts of the sequence that need making smoother on top of some extra shots for the most important titles - the director, writer and producer, editor and the name of the film, but in a creative way like we have filmed the others.

The original idea for our titles was to have a mixture of those that were creatively filmed and handwritten, and then others that were elegantly typed and edited into the footage. However, on reflection, we have concluded that this would make the sequence disjointed and that the edited titles wouldn't be as effective as those that were done during filming. Consequently, when we re-film the other small parts of the sequence, we are going to also come up with some more ideas as to how we are going to work the other titles in and amongst the footage. 

Finally we are going to lengthen the time of which the titles are up on screen for because, when given feedback, we realized that the shots with the titles weren't on screen long enough for the audience to take in the information, so in our next editing session we will increase the length of time that these shots show for. On top of this the speech part where Victoria is on the phone to Chris has a two second part on the end in which there is no speech, so we will need to cut this out in order to make room for the addition of new shots.