Edale - Editing Screen Shots

We had lots of takes to choose from as we did each shot about 4 times each as safety, towards the end we didn’t have as many to pick from as we didn’t have as much time to do things again and again as the rain was heavier and it was starting to get dark and we didn’t want it to get too dark because it would make the shots look different and also the cameras don’t work well in dark conditions without lighting and we were obviously relying on natural lighting.





We wanted it all to be in black & white because it's meant to be dark & mysterious. We tried it with both colour and black & white to see which one looked best and for the purpose of this short film the latter just gave it that edge we were looking for. To add this effect we selected the whole timeline and added the desaturation effect to it.

 
   


For some of the shots we had to adjust the brightness as some looked dark and others looked too bright due to the lighting in the different places we filmed because some of it was very enclosed with trees and other places were out in open fields with lots of lights. Also as the day went on it also got more overcast & darker towards late afternoon.






This shot was particularly dark compared to the rest of the film, in a way it was intentional as the mans face was to be concealed at all times and the darkness of this shot from within the building achieved that, we decided to brighten it a touch though so you could see a bit more what was going on.

 




This scene was one of the longest to edit as we wanted to show a passage of time with the walking down the path but we couldnt get the timings right of where we were cutting & we then had a problem with the transition, a straight cut didn't go with the pace, then we tried the above fade in fade out dissolve (above) which we were unsure about & in the end we just clicked on Add Video Transition & found this effect (below) which was perfect.








The ending we did a bit of deliberating over as well because at first we had a fade to black & then were advised about trying dip to white, which we were trying above. In the end we decided the black looked better & managed to do it so it faded out slowly, holding the end picture for aslong as possible which is what we wanted as before with the rough cut we felt it just didn't hold the audiences gaze for long enough.