Having had a successful shoot the week before, yesterday I got to edit my prelim task. I got to grips with premiere pro fairly quickly once again and was soon cutting and sticking clips together with relative ease. First I put together a rough cut of the scene, without checking for continuity or smoothness. However having watched it through, it had no flow and it felt very choppy, as if the shots were all just put in place with no real reasoning behind them. I then copied and pasted the whole sequence further along the timeline the that I could change it however I wanted without losing the original cut completely.
In my second draft, I wanted to create more empathy for one character, who was being bullied by her older brother. To do this, I lengthened the shot duration for shots of the girl, in order to allow the audience more time to identify with her. Also, for the opposite reasons, I shortened the shot duration on the guy, and I tried to show his face as little as possible. This made a great impact. Not only did the sequence feel less choppy but it also gave the audience a side to be on, creating more meaning to the piece.
One thing I took away from this task is the fact that getting a sequence right takes a lot more time than expected. From the hour long shoot last week, I created a sequence that was maximum 20 seconds long. Therefore every minute of shooting time is sacred as time is money.
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