Preliminary Task- The editing Stage...What a joy!

So when it came to Flora and I editing our footage, we had 100 minutes to idealy complete the task (one lesson) which I was confident that we wouldn't have a problem doing, as we already knew what needed to be done. While we decide on editing decisions together, in previous years I have let Flora take the lead on the actual 'clicking around', as things tend to go wrong when I'm unleashed on a computer. However this year I really felt that I needed to take more responsibility in the editing stage, so we actually did an equal amount of editing this time; which surprisingly went quite smoothly as I remembered more that I thought I could. This however is the process that I'm most worried about when going on to my coursework opening sequence.

Differences from the story board

Overall there were minimal changes that needed to be made as we stuck closely to the story board. The major difference was that we needed to change shot 21 to ensure that we would achieve match-on-action and continue the flow of the present being opened.
Other changes were made slightly on timings as some shots didn't quite achieve match-on-action, this was probably down to us only having one camera to use. So to do this we simply cut off the the very first 'half a second' of a shot. We went through this process for shots 2-3 where she is visibly standing still at the start of shot 2, and 5-6 where she pauses before she comes through the door. I think we have now achieved the desired continuity technique.
Since we stuck to the story board during filming, it meant that we had already achived many of the continuity techniques and so little needed to be done during editing- which I'm fairly relieved about.


Score Choice
We had originally chosen some piano loop from Garageband to put with our animatic. However since filming we have decided that this music really doesn't suit the purpose. So after a considerable amount of time searching we chose to replace it with a guitar score; this was chosen as we still wanted it to be cheerful and upbeat to reflect the narrative.
Once we had chosen the score it was just a matter of lowering the dynamics when there was dialog so that it remained clear and audible. This caused a little problem as we couldn't figure out how to do this on Final Cut so we had to go back to Garageband to achieve what we wanted. We eventually finished though and the result worked well with the footage.