We have taken many shots for the final opening title sequence, and for my individual edit I decided to put most of my favourite shots into it. It is way over the 2 minutes for the final group edit, this is because I wanted to put the whole thing together with my favourite parts.
I am quite proud of my colour grading on some parts of the edit. I colour graded each shot the same as the shots and made sure the darker shots were light enough that they would match the other shots. I matched them up so the sequence flows smoothly.
In my edit, I made sure that I included match-on-action shots and as many different techniques as possible. I also used fast cuts at the end of the sequence to create more tension. When 'Charlie' (Ricky) was walking along the sidewalk before he takes a picture of the victim (Max), I cut out parts of the shot to build tension as he was walking towards the destination. I also reversed the shot of Ricky getting the camera out of his bag, so that we see him putting the camera back in the bag too. I decided to do this just it see how it looked, however I know that to cut our final edit to 2 minutes we will not need to reverse this shot.
When I colour graded the shots I refered back to the L4 example on the blog, 'The Edge'. This is because the colour grading on the piece of work is similar to how I pictured my edit to be.
Individual Edit A2
ReplyDeleteAn impressive piece of work, excellent examples of continuity and the film makes clear narrative sense. To improve consider the most relevant footage that needs to be kept in order to cut the story down - use ELIPSIS as an editing technique to tell the story more efficiently. Be brutal with your footage - you may have to cut shots you love in order to refine the drama (the pursuit/ journey needs to build tension you can do this by increasing your pace and loosing 'journey time'.)
Excellent use of Grading and an impressive piece, way beyond the expectations of AS. Just remember - 3 minutes of this needs to go which is actually making it less dramatically effective. Well done