Editing the Prelim

We first looked through all the shots we had taken, selecting the ones we decided would prove useful for our video. We chose them based on the quality of the acting and the composition of the shots. We decided we wanted the video to start very dramatically to capture the audience's attention from the start so we chose a close up of Simon's foot kicking the door open because it had a lot of energy. Our next clip was a middle shot of Simon and Greg stumbling into the classroom. We had trouble making these two clips flow together because of the door opening. When we first added the second clip, it looked as if the door opened twice so we cut the second clip, taking care to make the door open in one continuous motion from one clip to the next.

Continuity was quite difficult because in one shot, Simon throws Greg a memory stick but Greg didn't always catch it. Finally we found two shots worked well. We used these two shots next. Then, for the dialogue, we chose a medium close-up of Simon from the side with him saying 'do it, come on!'. The then a high angle shot of Greg saying 'I can't' but this made the dialogue too stilted which lost the energy. We then tried tried cutting Simon's clip halfway through but keeping the sound going over the clip of Greg looking defeated before saying his line. We found that this worked well because it kept the action flowing and it looked more professional.

We then chose a low angle shot of Simon saying 'it's gotta be done'  following by a high angle shot of Greg to establish Simon's position of power and Greg's helplessness. When Simon left, we cut to a shot of Greg looking defeated and overlapped the sound of the door closing on that clip rather than just film Simon closing the door in order to create an effect. It emphasised how Greg had no way out of the situation, making the audience feel sorry for Greg. We then had a medium close up of the usb port on the computer with Greg's hand inserting the memory stick. We cut the shot midway through the insertion and added a close-up of the same action, cutting it so that it picked up the action from the previous shot. We found that this added a feeling of excitement because by highlighting the action with a close up, it made it seem important to the story and makes the audience want to know what happens as a result.