Editing Process - Keira

We have edited the majority of our film, and as a group we feel it's gone well. In Adam's post were some screen grabs from what we'd done so far, and here are some more:

This is one of the closeups of Tom playing bass, that goes with the voice over when Kate says 'There's just something about him.' It is filmed in a rough shaky style (similar to that often used in 'Wasp') to both incorporate a traditional social realism and to show that it's like she's watching him.

This is one of the eating shots which goes with the voice over of Kate saying 'he eats...A LOT.' For this we are considering slowing the shot down so that there is more emphasis on how disgusting his eating is. Likewise, with the shots below, we have edited them so that the camera stays in the same place but Tom takes each piece of pizza straight after the other to suggest he's eating really fast. By changing the speed of the shots we would be breaking a convention of typical social realism, but it may improve our film by introducing some comedy. Many of the social realism shorts we've watched have been hybirds, including elements of other genres, so we believe it is justified to break this convention.

This shot goes with the voiceover of Kate saying 'And he even wears socks in bed.', which again (we hope) will bring some slight comedy for the audience. All these shots juxtapose the ones where Tom is talking about Kate (e.g. 'She's beautiful') because he is thinking about her good points and she is thinking about his bad points. This forms the basis to the idea of our film that relationships aren't simple.

In the editing process we have decided to include fades and dissolves, in some cases to show the passage of time and in some to make the shots flow together better. In this scene, Kate is lying on her bed writing in her diary about Tom and in the shot she changes positions while the camera stays in the same place - this tells the audience she's been writing for a long time. To the left is an example of our dissolve, this is a still from in between two shots. For the lighting here, Adam suggested we make the room darker and use one table lamp to light the scene so it looks like evening. This has worked well as a contrast to the other daytime shots.

We will continue editing in our frees, and need to start thinking about considerations for the voice over. We might have a few more shots to film, but that depends on how we feel having watched what we've done so far.

Keira Smalley