Today we finally finished editing the interior scenes and began work on the exterior clips. We again made use of the camera and a FireWire to upload the remaining footage, our advanced experience with iMovie making the process much simpler than before.
Already the process feels much mroe straightforward, as the unhappier modern times utlise heavier amounts of editing in order to create a tense and abrupt visual style, in portrayal of the amosphere of the narrative. The editing in the flashback shots should in theory be much mroe straightforward, as it's narrative style is much looser - prehaps seen to encoroprate the postmodern theme of a disjointed narrative structure in that it does not follow any rigid or chronological timeline instead montaging a number of uplifting and bright clips to enforce the feeling of joy and vibrance. This makes for a much easier approach in the editing stages as it allows us to focus on the clip indivudually as opposed to worrying abotu how it will fit in exactly with the preceding and following clips.
One continuity issue that we have picked up on in this section is during the clips of the couple on the log, shot from behind. Through the middle of them, you can see the corner of one of our bags lying on the grass, which would break continuity in that neither of the characters were seen to exit the house with a bag, or seen to be carrying one in any exterior shots. In an attempt to overcome this, we decided to use clips of the same scene taken from a forward-facing angle, however we deduced that these were of a lesser quality and effect than our original intention had been, and therefore we decided that we had no other real option than to use these clips. Overall, it does not create a massively detrimental affect on the scene, but it would obviously be preferable to have as perfect continuity as possible.
We have realised today that we have deviated from our storyboard slightly. Whilst watching through what we had done so far, we noticed that the clips were not all necessarily in the places that we originally intended them to be - for example, we had hoped the lyrics 'unfinished messages' would be visually illustrated by a shot of the couple laying down scrabble tiles mid-game, however it is now illustrated by the beginning of the flashback, where she looks over to the window and notices the Scrabble box. We feel that overall, even though not all clips are where they were initially intended to be, they still work in their current positions, possibly to an even better effect than our original ideas would have done.
Already the process feels much mroe straightforward, as the unhappier modern times utlise heavier amounts of editing in order to create a tense and abrupt visual style, in portrayal of the amosphere of the narrative. The editing in the flashback shots should in theory be much mroe straightforward, as it's narrative style is much looser - prehaps seen to encoroprate the postmodern theme of a disjointed narrative structure in that it does not follow any rigid or chronological timeline instead montaging a number of uplifting and bright clips to enforce the feeling of joy and vibrance. This makes for a much easier approach in the editing stages as it allows us to focus on the clip indivudually as opposed to worrying abotu how it will fit in exactly with the preceding and following clips.
One continuity issue that we have picked up on in this section is during the clips of the couple on the log, shot from behind. Through the middle of them, you can see the corner of one of our bags lying on the grass, which would break continuity in that neither of the characters were seen to exit the house with a bag, or seen to be carrying one in any exterior shots. In an attempt to overcome this, we decided to use clips of the same scene taken from a forward-facing angle, however we deduced that these were of a lesser quality and effect than our original intention had been, and therefore we decided that we had no other real option than to use these clips. Overall, it does not create a massively detrimental affect on the scene, but it would obviously be preferable to have as perfect continuity as possible.
We have realised today that we have deviated from our storyboard slightly. Whilst watching through what we had done so far, we noticed that the clips were not all necessarily in the places that we originally intended them to be - for example, we had hoped the lyrics 'unfinished messages' would be visually illustrated by a shot of the couple laying down scrabble tiles mid-game, however it is now illustrated by the beginning of the flashback, where she looks over to the window and notices the Scrabble box. We feel that overall, even though not all clips are where they were initially intended to be, they still work in their current positions, possibly to an even better effect than our original ideas would have done.
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