Editing: Week III

Wow,

So we had our last edit! We showed Andrea our film and picked out any problematic areas we could find as we watched and critiqued. Andrea seemed to really like it, which was very exciting. I had been nervous the whole time to show someone else our film (I'm not really sure why..), but I think it was received really well.

Julia found calm vocal-less guitar music to play in the background, and she added a clear title that looks really good! Andrea thought so too and asked Julia to pass along both the music and title format to the rest of the groups so they could follow the same trend. It was cool that our group got to pass those along to everyone.

We had to hammer through a few glitches that came about between editing the voice overlay with B-roll, or because we had taken out an "uhm" or other inconsistency that then made the vocals a little bit choppy because of the way Chris enunciated words. There is one spot we noticed that is still pretty jumpy, but there wasn't a way to really fix it completely because his words ran together, so we did our best by overlaying his interview with B-roll instead and hope that it is not horribly noticeable. We lengthened out a few B-roll scenes because it seemed a little bit like we were just jumping back and forth quickly with different shots instead of letting the audience take in what is on the screen in front of them. To me it was kind of making it seem like we had 800 things on our minds that we were trying to show all at once, so I'm glad we figured out how to fix that. I think this also made the interview flow better since we had a lot of screen time that was purely interview footage, which can be a tad boring.

Seal: http://www.chrispaul.ca/prints/detail/seal_detail.htm

It was good to just re-watch the film several times and take note of where we thought things really worked in a scene (or what we had done well), and then things that we needed to fix. I really liked the collaborative process in this film because there were so many things that each of us contributed that wouldn't have been thought of otherwise. I think that the film is pretty much ready to be screened for our final class. Hopefully there are a few critiques (but not too many!..) of things that we can improve on, either in this film or for any future film work we may end up doing.   

I really hope that Chris Paul is stoked on this film when it's all complete. Hopefully it is a good resource for his website, etc. or that he feels comfortable showing it to others to help promote his work! I really enjoyed working with Chris, so I really hope this is something that is beneficial for him in the end!