Assignment: Rough and Final Cutting

For this next editing session we started working off of the Assembly of all the good clips that I had made the previous week. Also after discussing my thoughts on the "Story" we should tell with Clarice, we made a few adjustments then got into cutting. Clarice wrote a manuscript of all the interview questions and answers to make it easier for us to know where everything was and in deciding where to put the voice-over.

We split the work load a little like we did with Night Journey, whereby I focused on the picture edit and Clarice did the sound edit, coming together to bounce ideas and opinions off of each other. So while I decided on the picture order Clarice went and gathered a range of royalty free music that we could possibly use. It was difficult to pick the best one, as though Rock Climbing is classed as an extreme sport it's incredibly slow, so we couldn't have the music to fast as it would energise the audience more than the footage and that would just make everything off balance. Yet finding something that was more mellow but didn't put you to sleep was also hard because Emmanuel isn't the more interesting subject that would keep the audience entertained on his own. It was a trying process picking the right soundtrack. The one that was decided on works well as a mix between mellow and energetic, but it was the shortest.

We finally started working on the final cut where I started the process of trying to get the sequence we had cut down to be within the time constraints. As we had made a table what was in each clip, Clarice was trying to synchronise that with the manuscript she had written.

We were half editing around each other. We cutting to the beat, Clarice stopping me every now and then to add in the voice-over.
We stopped there for the day knowing what we had left to do in time for the presentation the following week.