After our Meet and Greet/Script Read Through, we had a test shoot at one of our main locations, the underpass in Vinters Park. We filmed a small segment of the last scene of the film where Jimmy confronts Jase. What we were looking for here was how the film looked when it was filmed in dark lighting conditions and audio in the underpass. As editor, it was my job to edit the test footage together and see how it looked.
During my edit I had a chance to test out the technique 'Stagger Cutting' that I have researched prior to the shoot. Even though this is a rough cut and there are not a variety of shots due to the short amount of time we had available to film in as one of our actors was unwell, it shows how it blends the clips together well to make it flow well. But, there were problems I found while editing. Firstly, the lighting does not look natural or realistic, it is obvious a light is being shone on the actors, and secondly I was unable to use the audio recorded from the ZOOM Mic as I could not tell them apart and which clips they link up to. The lighting problem is something I have addressed before, but now we can see how it would actually look if it was filmed in these lighting conditions. I have found a way to combat this through a filter on Final Cut Pro X that turns day footage to looking like it is filmed at night time. And with the audio, I have spoken to the director and he has agreed that before each take he will say what scene it is and what take it is. This will help me a lot with organising the clips and the audio so I will not face the problems I have faced with this short edit to when we start our actual production filming.
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