Editing 2

The next bit of editing we needed to perfect was the two pan shots of the two characters in separate rooms, talking to each other online. Originally we wanted a nice smooth pan from one side of the room i was in, a slight pause on the bit of wall in between, and then continuing across the room Ryan was in, but this became an issue when we were missing Nicole and Rich on the day we were filming this so me and Ryan had to do the best we could. We had to split the pan in two, so that we could film each others shot however, it proved to be a challenge to get the pan starting again in the right place and being nice and smooth as the tripod didn't go as high as we needed. But to fix this problem we thought it would look good and disguise the cut more, if we put a dissolve in to transaction from one to the other, which worked really well because it makes it look more like the characters are in separate rooms in separate houses, instead of just rooms next door to each other which we thought was better than our original vision of it. In future to avoid this trouble we should plan our filming a bit better and make sure that we have enough people to film a shot properly, as we did have this problem before with the shot of me and Nathan walking across the hill.

There was another slight problem with this shot we noticed when we looked at it and that was that the shot before it was of Ryan in his room turning on the laptop, and seeing as the pan shots start with me and then end on Ryan we thought it would make sense if it went the other way round but we couldn't just swap it because otherwise the pans would be going in different directions and not one continuous line. So to solve this we came up with the idea of changing the settings of the clips and putting them into reverse instead so that the pan is still in a line but starting with Ryan, which seemed to work well because there wasn't loads of movement within the shots meaning the audience won't notice that it's in reverse.

With everything done and edited apart from the end we saw that we still had time to fill before the ending, and also that the ending seems to just appear with only a little build up and it doesn't really feel like an ending. So we thought we would put in lots of quick fire shots of all the important moments in the story together, which represents the two characters journey and what they've gone through/how they got to how they are now. It also created the build up we needed because we sped them up quite a lot so that it makes the audience tense in waiting to see what the ending of the story will be. We faded out the last one and left a brief gap of just the black screen and then faded up the last scene of the two meeting each other and kissing, which all gave it the feeling of a proper ending.