Monday 7 April 2014

Re-editing Footage

We made several changes in our final editing stage.

Shots we deleted/trimmed.

We deleted a few shots from the morning that are repeats (especially if they are of the same framing). And also deleted the Dave wipe; the photocopier screen shot, the close-up at the train station, and trimmed the ends of some office shots and train shots. We L-cut the sound of Dave's head hitting the table into the black slug of the next day as well as we felt this was an interesting use of sound and shot duration. We also trimmed the morning shot of the steam hitting the camera as it didn't suit the context.

Shots we changed.

We fixed the filter of one of the shots, as there were accidentally 2 filters on there. We added music over the whole dream sequence to add flavour to it, showing his life gaining emotion, however the music cuts as soon as he wakes up. 

Shots we added.

We filmed 3 shots for the dream, an establishment shot for the bank, and 2 of him going to it. We decided on our favourite one and sequenced it into the film. We also re-recorded the alarm shots with no camera wobble and using the right date, they were significantly better than the original ones. 

At the start of the film we included a simple title of "Dave" at the start, after researching fonts we found 'Courier' to be a very bland and dull font, yet still professional, aptly summing up Dave's life. 

At the end we added credits for the actor and crew, we timed it so that as Rio releases his big sigh as his name comes up.