We uploaded the clips of us in the park and worked out what clip goes where. We had a lot of footage as we recorded about 15minutes overall, but we only needed 10-30 seconds of park footage. The first park clip we put after the detective has pinned up a picture of me, about 10 seconds into the clip. We didn't want to start the clip with a park clip as we wanted to introduce the detective first. I edited those clips to last a maximum of 3 seconds as we wanted them to be short, like a quick glimpse of the past. Sound wise, we kept the audio on those clips. If we got rid of the audio, the clips wouldn't show the full picture. Even though they only last 2 or 3 seconds, the audio is a huge part of it as it shows the girls having fun as if everything is normal.
Then we started editing the detective clips. The panning of the pin board was quite long so we broke it up and placed other clips in between. Also, some of the pictures on the onboard were too dark so we cut that part of the clip out. We also did this when it panned over a plain part of the pin board.
Although we had reached 1:55 minutes of footage, there is one scene where the detective is just looking at a paper, flips it and then eventually pins it up. We didn't like that part as it looked unnatural and the shot was too long, so we cut out 7 seconds of that clip.
When we watched our clip again, I realised that the transition between the first and second clip sounded funny. The natural sounds of both clips didn't fit well together and it sounded choppy. In the trial opening sequence Morgan made, hers didn't sound choppy as she used a different clip of the detective sitting at his desk in the beginning. However, we didn't want to change our clip as in the one we had he moved restlessly which shows that he is working late at night. Morgan and I attempted to fix this problem many times but it didn't work, until I realised that if I cut of 1 second of the end of the first clip and the start of the second clip then it sounds natural and not choppy.
There is a shot where the detective underlines a part Yasmin's information sheet, he moves a little and the line is not straight, which makes it look weird. Also we couldn't re-record that part as he wrote it in pen. What we did is cut it so it only shows him underlining before he moves.
After all our editing we only reached 1:43minutes. We tried to add more par clips but Morgan said that they didn't make sense where they were placed, and that if we added more they would be overused. Therefore, I had the idea to slow down some of the clips. I changed all the panning videos to 85% speed and the rest of them to 90%. The reason why i only did 90% for the rest of the videos was because it was natural movement and it would look off slowed down. As the clips were only slowed down by 10% or 15% it didn't make much difference to the way they looked. I asked Yasmin after I did this as she wasn't involved in this decision and she saw no difference. After we had finished the opening sequence went up to 1:51minutes
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