Putting It All Together

once we got all the footage we needed, it was time to edit it all together. Me, Lyndon and Liz concentrated on the edit and Patrick and Adam stored the production folder, wiki's and some music for the film. I have had a fair bit of experience on Final Cut Pro before so took it upon myself to teach Lyndon and Liz the basics in order for us to have a group input on the edit. We managed to cut the scenes up successfully and had a lot of footage to work with. We needed a way to cut it all down, so decided to take a lot of things out that weren't necessary and also use montage in order to speed things up a bit.
Here is quite a long montage sequence taken from the new Pixar film Up but it's such montages that helped with our own idea for one, basically montages like these speed up something which could have been seen as a long process, like married life in this video and like the creation on miracle hangover cure in our film. It was important for us to take the important parts and show them to the audience, creating an idea of what the character is doing but not boring the audience with repetitive actions.

The edit was quite a long process and we spent a lot of time getting a rough cut ready for viewing but once we handed our rough cut in we took a lot of time again just concentrating on the making the film the best it could possibly be. The rough draft was a basic overview of the storyline, it didn't have any music, sound effects and was still quite long. So we concentrated first on removing some unwanted scenes and minimising dialogue. But then we decided we wanted a short sequence to be added just to make it flow a bit more so whilst I continued to edit Liz and Lyndon filmed a short sequence which was added which genuinely improved the look of that scene. We needed some still shots to be incorporated into the film as well so I downloaded a program i had used before called Capture Me, which allowed us to take still images from our timeline, add them and show them for as long as we wanted.