Editing update: 'Okay, we'll leave it now'

With the 'journey' starting back in November with the first ever script drafts (mine), (Jake's), we have gone through several stages of development, throwing ideas in and out and all over the place and with the merging with another group - Beth Overton and Phoebe Davies - we eventually came to an end product.

The editing process was long, exhaustive and sometimes tedious. The fiddly process of moving audio clips across to match video clips and having to work with transitional effects in very small spaces were just a couple of problems that we came across the solved through nothing but hours of methodical placement. From slowing down clips to match a slower flowing pace of the clip to then cutting and overlapping audio in order to speed up a piece of dialogue in a way that still sounds right. The cheeky yet somewhat creepy addition of the 'breaking the fourth wall' technique to raising and lowering the audio levels to a non-ear-ringingly-loud-volume.

And much more.

But on Monday 10th March, with one last drag of a clip to another ('AND DON'T FORGET THE SNAPPING TOOL!') our film was finally finished. While we waited for the film to load into a QuickTime format, we recalled earlier on in our course, when we had analysed other sixth form students' opening sequences. We decided that the tiringly long editing process was not only worth it, but that we had learnt a great deal from working with editing programs such as Final Cut. We may not be Hollywood editors but we had constructed a film in which the editing is about as seamless and unnoticeable (which is a pretty good sign) as it probably could be with the clips we had at our disposal to use. No doubt our film might be pulled apart by others, but to us we have done our best and learnt essential editing skills and techniques for our media course.

The opening sequence for Dealer's Atonement is finished, and will be available to watch on this blog very soon. Now, I will be starting my evaluation of our work.