Week 13 - Workshop 5

Hi,

This week we started editing our movie, YAY! On the tuesday I booked an editing suite but unfortunately we didn't get much done. On wednesday (today) we came into class for the workshop and remained until 3pm. Conrad stayed until six which was so dedicated of him, I'm so grateful!

We started by picking the shots we know we definitely want to use, and deleting the ones we definitely don't want to use. The ones left over we put in a folder of spare shots to use later if we need to. We've started cutting it together but I'm a bit worried it's going to go for too long! The story is fairly complicated and I don't want the viewers to get confused.

We've cut together about a minute and a half of stuff, and Conrad told me he's started to colour correct. It's really time consuming, and I really hope we get it all done in time!

In case we don't get it all done in time here is exactly what happens in our film (which I think I outlined in a previous blog).

Boy gets ready for a date and heads to the restaurant. The waitress is a bit odd. Grant (the boy) waits for his date (Kirsty). She arrives late and the date is quite awkward. The waitress takes their orders and appears to hate Kirsty. Kirsty goes to the bathroom and Grant realises he doesn't have any money and starts to stress out. As soon as Kirsty returns, he runs to the bathroom and starts throwing up coins. Then another Grant appears (he has bipolar) and collects the coins. He is calm and collected, goes back outside and succeeds with the date. Kirsty and Grant leave together happily, with the stressed Grant still in the bathroom.

We have a lot of work to do, and I hope we haven't deleted any material we need. The film may even change a bit as editing goes on, but I guess that isn't surprising.

Editing is quite a difficult progress considering some of us have never used the program before but it's been really fun learning about it! I'm loving seeing the shots turn into scenes, I just hope we can get the story across.

I'll have one more blog post after this in Week 15 probably, with everything that happens between now and then.

The end.