Editing my final sequence

Our editing process went as follows: First, we chose the clips that we liked most, put them on the timeline in the correct order and shortened them down, this also meant putting the close-up excerpts in the right place. After putting the clips in the right order, we also altered the speed of the fight scene making it faster, as this made the pace feel more chaotic which we wanted. We then added titles over the top of these clips and made sure we used almost all titles except ‘based upon,’ as we didn’t base our story upon anything.  

Finally, we added the sound into our clips by using the sound we already had and recording a few more sound effects by going into the lift again. We also put a copyright free lift music sound over the top, to juxtapose the violence that is about to happen on the screen.

We did encounter problems with the part where our actress is kicking the actor as it went on for too long, and we needed a clip to join to two together that we had cut in half to make the transition seem smoother. We managed to do this by cutting to her head and then back to the low angle shot which works effectively. 

The kicking was the only clip we cut as it was too long, but apart from that we kept the rest of the footage as it all worked really well. We also ran into problems with making sure we had enough clips for the titles as we needed to fit around 20 into the 1 minute 50 seconds. However, we simply showed some of the names in the same clip by lengthening it and putting the credits at different time which sorted out our problems

My favourite part of the editing was the fight scene, as I liked piecing all of the clips together to make it look like an actual fight. I also liked it when we added sound over the top, as it made the whole sequence feel more real which was really satisfying to observe.