Editing Update

Myself and Phil have edited a rough cut together, myself edited scenes 1-6 and Phil 6 onwards. After throwing together a rough cut each, we then stuck them together on a single timeline in FinalCut. Although being edited by two different people, it fitted together rather nicely. We even found we used some of the same editing styles for certain scenes.

The next stage was that Phil and Myself began to tighten the edit down after looking at it as a whole, w sat through the edit questioning every scene and if it could be shorter. After sometime of this we had a better looking rough edit, and now it was time for Adam to see it.

The silence during the time he watched it was rather nerve racking, did he like it? did he hate it? ... but after the headphones came off there was a sense of relief when he said almost instantly he like it, it was very nicely shot and that it cuts together nicely aswell. He did bring up a few points of taking some air out of it and also questioning who's scene a particular scene was. This was nothing Phil and myself weren't aspecting and took the advice on board and refined the edit even more.

Now it was Charlottes turn to have a bash at it, she watched it through like Adam before her. Charlotte wrote down a number of notes from watching it that she wants changed. It was nothing major and only required a modest amount of tweaks.
Now its just down to tightening all the shots even further as it does loose its pacing at a number of points in the edit. This is a problem we are aware of and are working to fix it.