I took the job of editing the live segment together and putting GVs and sequences over the top of the interview. This meant reviewing the footage we took of the attractions and matching this up with the transcription of the interview so that the relevant footage was placed over the top of the interview.
(i.e. when John talks about the haunts having different themes, I placed footage over the top of the different themes within the attractions). This was quite a simple task as I only had to match up the GVs with the transcription and put them over the correct places. I had to do a little bit of colour correction on some of the darker shots (e.g. the spinning vortex - as this was very dark and dimly lit - I increased the highlights and some of the mid tones & also slightly increased the saturation to enhance the colours in the tunnel). A lot of the clips also needed some stabilisation - I didn't add too much stabilisation as we still wanted to clips to look handheld (just not so shaky). I also added some of the sound from the haunts to bring in the atmosphere of the hauntfest. I included some clown / funfair music, some loud suspenseful music and the sound of a child laughing - this all adds to the creepy atmosphere.
Melissa focused on editing together the hangover explanation / visual metaphor for the substances going into the body. For this we had different camera angles and clips so it ended up being quite a complex task. The section starts with Jason talking directly to the camera, this then moves into him pouring m&ms from the shot glasses into the 'body' (another glass) - this was filmed from two different angles, this then moves into Jason closing the explanation as a PTC. This job was made harder by the fact Jason's hands move positions quite a lot, affecting the continuity of the piece, however, we should be able to find shots that fit as we did many takes of this sequence. We decided to leave the main colour correction until the end so that we could ensure the colouring is consistent throughout the production.
Jason focused on editing together the sequences of Aidan drinking and the hangover cures themselves. This was probably the largest chunk of the edit as there are 4 different hangover cures to be edited together. Luckily, we were quite strict with ourselves on the shoot days so the shots / information we need should be very easy to find and sequence together. The trickiest bit will be choosing which shots of Aidan drinking beer to use as we filmed a lot of different shots in different shot types for this. Titles and colour correction will be done at the end when the sequence has been put together (to keep the titles and colour consistent throughout).
Alex focused on editing together his PTCs for the opening, linking, and closing pieces of the production. This was quite a simple task so Alex also took on the responsibility of editing together the trailer (something which he was quite keen to do as it was a lot of fun to film). We wanted the trailer to be fast paced and funny. We did this by cutting together lots of different footage with lots of different myths filmed from lots of different camera angles. We also decided to have most of the trailer in black and white and finally bring in colour when inviting people to come to The Bunker. We are really pleased with the end result.
As we edited the piece together, we changed kept an edit script. This was similar to the shoot script but anything that got changed in the editing would then be changed on the script. We did this so that if any of the edit got lost, we weren't back at square one - we could just look at how we had pieced things together on the edit script and put them back into the timeline.
Unfortunately, on the day before the deadline, we lost a lot of our edit! Luckily we had the edit script to refer back to so that we could edit our piece back together. This was a major set back which meant that we didn't end up getting time to track the titles onto the shot glasses (in the hangover explanation). We are still happy with the edit but losing a lot of it meant that we didn't achieve everything we wanted to.
This is the first copy of the edit script - it was constantly updated during the edit.
- because of our detailed script and time codes, we were able to sequence together the production quite easily.
- as we kept an edit script, when we lost some of our edit we were easily able to edit it back together
- the mood is lifted and it has a much more fun tone - perfect for our target audience
- the titles have that old fashioned label maker look to them - adding to our brand
- having a title sequence allows us to establish our brand and make it seem like a reliable and 'proper' news source
- the stories are clear and easy to follow - the audience doesn't have to work hard to follow the edit
What could be improved:
- the colour correction and sound could be slightly improved - as we lost a lot of our edit, this cost us time that we could have been spending on improving these qualities.
- there were a couple of shots where the continuity is slightly off - the towel on Jason's shoulder during his PTC's moves slightly
- the funny link between Jason rubbing a lemon on Aidan's armpit and Alex drinking a glass of water with lemon is lost slightly - we could have made it clearer either through the script or the edit (the idea being that Alex is drinking a drink with some lemon that has been under Aidan's armpit)
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