Final Editing Session

Today was our final editing session! Similar to other days, I went to the editing suite in my study period just before our class. I did this because I had an idea for another recut which was

a compromise between the original plan and the first recut. This was to have Hugo's eyeliner match play as if he was looking back and then playing the team talk as if it was a flashback to the motivational speech at half time. I felt a though this was a good idea because we really wanted the speech to run into the penalty and end perfectly on time with the ball and the first recut where we shifted the team talk to the middle of the sequence made that not possible without it feeling out of place. Additionally, Tom, our technical advisor, sat with me and we thought that making the colours more crisp and increasing the contrast on the football section of the sequence made for greater contrast and made the football have more visual impact. 

Once the group came in for our lesson, we all agreed that the recut I had just done was the best and a good compromise out of the 3, making it an easy decision after watching each of them. This meant we were ready to add the soundtrack. Carl imported it into Premiere Pro and immediately it had a considerable effect and brought our sequence to life. Because we had chosen the recut as opposed to the original cut that Carl had been mixing against, we had a few minor changes to make and we decided to do these on the visuals rather than the sound. Firstly we had to make sure the coach's speech (Remy) fell exactly in line with the music for it to fade out and have a strong impact second before the kick. Not only did we have to make sure the sound lined up with the ending, we had to ensure that it was synced with the visuals. Subsequently, we went through the sequence with the soundtrack on mute, locking it in place, and adjusting the volume of some shot, heightening the birds chirping in the opening and the sideline reaction after the penalty while decreasing the db on shots of the coach shouting. We then noticed that Hugo placed the ball down twice in the edit which needed changing for continuity purposes, this was easily solved and a minor change. 

While getting it signed off by Adam, our teacher, he noticed that our titles were in the wrong order, something we hadn't noticed after changing around shots (with titles on them). This was easily fixed, however, there was a power cut just as we began this - meaning we had lost the last 15 minutes of tedious work. We were able to quickly recover and finish our sequence by moving the titles into the correct order. Lesson learnt... save as often a possible. 

I am proud of our final sequence and, in my opinion, the sound really injects atmosphere and life into the sequence. I feel that we worked well as a group to get to this point and I think we executed our initial idea to the best of our ability with the skills and time we were allocated :)