Editing Process Reflection

As I am the cinematographer I didn't have to be as involved as much with this part of the production as I have with the other stages, but I made sure I was. I took it upon myself to do the first "Ruff Cut" which took a couple of days to do. My thought behind it was making sure that I could get the film how it would be without the time restrictions that were put in place. As the sound recordist did the audio separately instead of into the camera I had to match up the files to the correct video clips.

This took up most of the time during the editing process as there was very little indication on which was the correct sound for the correct clip. The way I had to do it was by listening the very poor quality initial audio and look out for the little variations in the way the dialogue was spoken.

Once I had done this, I then worked on making sure it flowed correctly so the editor could work on adding the finish. He also gave me the stabilized footage to put in place of the shots that were slightly to shaky. One crucial thing is that I didn't get to see the edit before the final version was produced, as I noticed in the final cut a few shots weren't framed very well in the crop especially during the pub scene. One particular shot can be seen below, the protagonists head is slightly cut off, if I were to do this again I would make sure these little visual aspects were taken care of before the final cut was completed.