Lesson: Comedy Edit Feedback and Changes.

The feedback I received from the comedy edit was mixed, i got a few laughs from the montage scene though this was most likely down to the choice of music I used. This was as expected as the scene and acting as a whole was nowhere near funny especially as we all have the same footage, therefore it was necessary to use sound to manipulate audience reaction. Aside from that a few jibes were made about the pacing of the scene, and the length of the montage, but overall it wasn't too bad and with the constructive criticism I then went about making the necessary adjustments to the scene.

I began by taking the montage scene and putting it in its own sequence, this made it easier and gave me space to deconstruct it so I could play around with the shortening and reordering of the scene, whilst still making sure it was in time with the music.
 

Another comment that was made was that the mouth of the character Tony was moving but no sound was coming out as he laughed. This was a difficult one to fix as, the character himself only laughs silently. There was never an uninterrupted track where he alone was laughing at an audible level to duplicate and place under. Therefore I went about trying to find a laughter clip on youtube. I found two that were feasible but unfortunately sounded to pitchy and or mechanical. Nevertheless I tried out both then got an opinion; did it sound better with or was it better to leave it without. The latter won out.

After all those adjustments were made I put the pieces back together in a new sequence just to make everything more organised and tidy.

With that ended the last Editing Project. Along with this Comedy Edit, the Drama Piece (Night Journey) and Documentary (In A Climbers Hands) all had to be put on to a disk and handed in, the three together making up the assessed piece for the module.