The initial assembly edit was fairly quick to do as I was able to synch up all of the different cameras and let the action play. One that was harder to do was the camera on Brian as it had no sound. I had to use the sound from the camera that was on me even though the shot was substandard and then synch the footage of Brian with no sound to this soundtrack. This was really tricky and time consuming to do although I did clapperboard with my hands and when this was in vision it was much easier to do. Once this was done it was a matter of choosing the best takes of each of the shots. I kept the cameras rolling throughout all of the attempts and this made synching the footage easier BUT it did mean that there was a lot of footage in the timeline. So I put al the takes in the timeline synched them all up, chose the best one then discarded the rest.
There was also issues with footage from the hand-held camera where it was just a lot of short shots and not coverage of the whole scene from start to finish and all of the lines. Some of this was fine as it was just GV's but the shots that had talking heads had to be labelled and then the right place in the edit found. This was done last when I had all the best takes in place.
One other issue was at the ending where the wide shot did not cover all of the takes. This was a little bit of a hassle as it meant that until I got my pick-ups I only had two decent shots to choose from. Luckily the end of the interview is a little more frenetic so the shots can be more cutty to build tension and this was possible.
The interview flowed pretty wellI left the interview a little baggy though as I knew that I would have the pick-ups to put in to replace the substandard shots of me. The pace was good but in the final edit I may want to try and build the tension more and be more frenetic in the cutting when ben explodes at the end of the interview. There is plenty to work with though.
Re-shoots
Before I completed the editing I had to get the re-shoots done to correct the mistakes on the footage first time around. This was done as pick ups of just my lines. Fortunately the other actor was around to read me his lines and also to give me an eye line. I needed a little coaching to hit the lines and to make sure I did not act as the fluidity of the earlier shoot recording on all 4 cameras was gone and this footage needed to be cut into edit that I had already.I think i did well and Brian an actor coached me but I had to be careful not to "act" but to just be myself as this worked well in the first shoot and had the right feel and tone.
As well as all of this sound was checked and so were the images and lighting so no errors were made this tim. I also managed to get a cameraman friend to shoot this for me so the quality was good.
One minor issue was the fact that I had not shaved and in the intervening 6 days between shot one and this one I had not shaved. I remembered the shots and took these on my phone as reference, lighting, props and my costume but overlooked this. This was not a problem in the Wide shot as you cannot see but in the roving hand held and new MCU and MS of me it does show. Tiny shots from the hand-held will work though as it is hard to see. In a way this accident adds another dimension to the piece as the sell is that it was all shot in one 10 minute session continuously. As I am trying to make it 99% right the highly observant may notice this and question it and therefore it's authenticity which i do not mind.
Adding the re-shoots to the edit
Once the re-shoots were added the piece looked a hundred times better as a complete interview package. There may be issues over grading as the footage from all of the cameras looks slightly different. However I like the rough a and ready feel of this it makes it look less polished and gritty and may keep it. I will also try grading though to see what it looks like more polished.
Overall the sound is good but it may need a polish in Adobe Audition to clean it up a little.
The piece did have a nice flow to it and did play out like it was all filmed continuously in 10 minutes as this was the premise. Another area that will need solving is the into. I did not film the set up of the crew that was being taken to the location due to the fact that it would have taken too much time and I am not sure I could make it work without it being over-dramatic and cheesy. So I think I will either have to shoot a short intro to the piece with me OR find a way to do it with titles. The conflict can possibly come across better in the titles so I will try that first.
Areas to work on before the final cut.
- Consider grading.
- Titles for the start and credits for the end.
- Solution for the opening of the piece.
- More/longer awkward pauses in exchanges when I am challenging him.
- More pacey editing at the end of the piece. More cutty and disjointed to capture action.
- More use of close ups of both faces to build confrontation, conflict and action.
- Possibly more abstract GV's as I loved their awkwardness.
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