Editing

So now that all the filming is definitely done and the fact that we've been editing some stuff as we go along, leaves us with only needing to finish off any editing and getting everything to flow nice and make sense.

We begun with the facebook/msn conversation on the laptops because together they were way to long, like so long that they could of taken up the hole song on their own, so this needed some serious work to cut it right down but still make sense and be readable. We first cut out the beginning small talk of the typical "Hey, How are you?" type conversation because that doesn't tell the audience anything specific or important so it was fine to cut out. Next we went through it and cut after each message sent on the two clips and started deleting every other clip because when we put it together and play it back, we wanted it to switch between the two screens/points of view, therefore we only needed every other clip, at this point we also sped the clips up a little to reduce the length more. The next challenge we had was trying to make sure that the audience would have enough time to read the message on screen and get the idea of what is happening, as this scene is quite vital to the story as it shows/confirms that the two characters are interested in each other. To do this we simply put it all together and watched it through, reading each message and from doing this we noticed that a few of them went by way too fast and couldn't be read in that time so we slowed those individual clips down a bit.

When we had finished doing this we put in the right place in our video and watched the whole thing through to see how it fitted in, but whilst watching this and thinking in a viewer's perspective, we came to the realisation that this scene was still a little long, we felt that it needed breaking up so we put a shot of the drums roughly half way through to it which worked quite well.

Another minor issue we came across when watching this shot in with everything else was that it was too big of a jump from the laptop screens to the two guys playing with a bottle outside. This wasn't much of a problem because all we needed to do was fade it down and the next one up so that it flowed better.