Due to the problem with the tape and the fact that the footage we planned on editing hadn't actually filmed it meant our editing session was going to be a bit of a waste of time! We really didn't want to waste this valuable time so we managed the achieve a number of things:
We edited into the video the shot of the glass falling and smashing to the floor.
We already knew where we wanted this shot to go which was when the lyrics climaxed and say 'love is only true if it hurts'. We used the razor tool to cut the shot down and started it when the glass just comes into view when falling and ended it when it had finished smashing on the floor. We wanted this shot to look as dramatic as possible so we slowed it down to 50% and turned it black and white to match the flashbacks. The shot was not long enough to finish the anti-climax section so we decided to reverse play it after it had fallen. The effect it gives is that the glass falls and smashes to the ground, then puts itself back together and goes up, this looks interesting and professional.
We adjusted the flashback shots in the last chorus.
The shot where Joe notices Emily leaving the house with her suitcase we felt came too long after the shot where Emily walks downstairs with her suitcase. We thought that the viewers might be confused and think it was just a random shot. We deleted it as we all felt it wasn't a good shot in terms of framing and lighting. Instead we found a shot of Joe walking through the corridor in the house to follow Emily when she is leaving. We cut the shot in half and put the first half in the place that had been created from the deletion of Joe's reaction and the second half we used to replace Laura's close-up. Having these shots instead of the reaction shot definitely look better and will help the audience understand what is happening.
We made sure everything done so far was edited as tight as possible and re-framed some shots.
Basically we tidied everything up so that all is left to do is the anti-climax section of the song to the end. We did a few adjustments such as re-framing and cutting down shots the tiniest bit.
Effects used today:
- Black and white
- Reverse Play
- Reduce speed
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