Construction Post 4: Reflections on edit week 1

In our first editing week we agreed that we needed to work to our limit and dedicate all of our free time to the project in order to put together shots and organise what needed to be rectified during the back-up shoot that weekend. We filled out an edit schedule and wrote down when each member of the group would be editing and aimed to have as many editing sessions as possible as a whole group so we could make inclusive decisions.

During the edit week we carried out many tasks including:

• Renaming the shots and identifying the best takes
• Editing the shots and putting them together on the timeline
• Adding shots that required special/more advanced editing such as split screens and jump cuts
• Selecting a new music track
• Recording the non-diagetic sound and sourcing other clips such as the Film4 ident
• Creating basic temporary titles

Although we worked quite well as a group during the edit week, we thought it best if we split the group and into two and edit two separate sequences - Pru and I did one and Josh and Gabriel did the other. This was a hard decision but we felt that we had conflicting creative ideas on how to edit the sequence, so rather than spoil the harmony of the group we thought it would be best to just create two sequences. Despite this we still collaborated on many decisions and helped each other to edit specific scenes.

We showed our target audience our edit at the end of the week. They said that we could have showed Grace's anger better, so as a result we planned to shoot a new shot of this in our back up shoot.