Out O Date

Firstly before anything I decided which scene I wanted to edit first,  once decided to imported all the rushes from that scene. So that I could begin categorising them.

I then began renaming every piece of footage that I had imported, in each clip I would clearly state whether it was INT or EXT as well as the shot type and who was in the frame so that I didn't have to click through every clip, I placed all of these clips from the scene in a bin categorising them in to a condensed location so that when it came to renaming the next scene the tab wasn't cluttered.  

 Before structuring a rough cut in the timeline I setup my user preferences making sure that the timeline was set to the industry standard of 10 hours.

Staying in the user preferences box I selected 3 minutes as my auto save timing under the 'General' tab.

Once the footage had been renamed and the bin for the scene had been established, I began constructing a rough cut in the timeline, I followed the script closely however decided not to use the establishing shot to start the film as I felt 'Alf's' reaction was more important and compelling to initiate the sequence. 

  

Shortly after we see the milk men exchange their feelings about the sign we see a car pull up in the foreground the shot itself works as a cut adjacent to the mid shot of the two men however the long walk before she addresses the men is too long and so I decided to use the shot of 'Alf' walking to meet her half way. 

By using this shot I was able to decrease the time it takes her to reach the milk men. 

After I was happy with the rough cut I went through to rid the piece of the pops that are heard as the audio track plays through varying clips, as I was only creating a smooth playback the sound tracks only needed very small fades. 

Throughout the scene I had tended to use small cross fades however between these two shots I chose to bridge the audio from one through to the other, as you can notice in the CU shot of 'Tony' 'Alf' can't be seen and so rendering the need for cross fades unnecessary.

 After watching the rough cut back I noticed that their is distracting car noise in the background which is unavoidable, to avoid this i chose to elongate the clip so that it could be heard appear and leave making the cut between the next shot clean.

The downside to keeping this clip long was that the audience couldn't see 'Jane's' reaction to 'Alf's' verbal abuse, however I was still able to cut back to her as she kicks 'Alf' in his lower area which I felt worked just as well.

Prior to these two clips I noticed that I had a clip that framed 'Alf' as opposed to 'Jane' this I changed because its distracting seeing her mouth move in the corner subsequently 'Alf's' reaction to what she's saying is rather dry and under humoured. 

After completing this scene I organised the next folder of rushes into a new bin along with categorising the types of clips .

I then constructed a rough cut in the timeline following the script however ignoring the door scene.

I then went through and trimmed the clips down so that it flowed more naturally, I chose to use the shot of 'David' opening the door after the establishing shot as I fell its necessary to display his character by framing his facial expressions as he directly clashes with 'Alf''. 

Through watching the rough cut and even the trimmed version its clear that their are problems with the characters positioning, to avoid any awkward/unnatural positioning I cut on pieces of head movement and drew clips out longer to make sense of the movement in particular 'Sandra's' sudden jump to the corner of the room after speaking to 'Jane'.