Editing Process 3 - Keira

The final scene is the climax and most pinacle moment of the 5 minutes, and is the only scene which is present-time rather than telling what's happened up until this point. Because of this, we have decided to keep all the original sounds which were recorded during filming (e.g. Kate kissing Tom, opening and shutting of doors, sighs etc.) to make it more real and tell the audience this is what's happening now. This will also stick to the conventions of social realsim better.

A problem we face with this is that the couple are watching TV in the scene. This is a problem for the sound because when we cut between shots (for example, when it goes from medium long shot to medium close up) the sound of the TV jumps to a different place. Because of this, we have decided to get different sound from Youtube to replace it. We want something that will be ironic or make a point about the scene, so we decided to use a romantic moment from a film that they could be watching to make the atmosphere more awkward.
Brief Encounter seemed a good choice to use, as we all know it so well and it is a classic romance film. It would also show a big contrast to relationships then and relationships now, which might be an interesting theme at the end of the film. If we were to use Brief Encounter, it would probably be this clip (it being one of the most famous from the film):



However, as in the actual sound we recorded during filming is from Scrubs (what is more likely they'd be watching) and which also fits in with the atmosphere, we may decide to keep that. Another bonus of this is that we wouldn't have to delete the original sound from the scene completely, meaning we also got rid of the diegetic sounds i mentioned earlier (walking, kissing etc.). Therefore, I have found this clip from Scrubs that I feel would make the atmosphere most awkward at the point where Kate comes back in the room and they are about to tell each other how they feel:



We can do a version with both and see which works best.

Keira Smalley