Construction Post 6: Reflections on Edit Week 2

Our second edit week had several small issues but was otherwise very good and we managed to finish our edit to a high level of quality. Since we already had the backbone of the main shoot put together, it was fairly simple for us to replace the necessary shots in the kitchen sequence and to completely replace the outdoor sections of the opening. Once we had replaced all of the appropriate shots we modified the music and sound effects in order to make sure that these were still correctly in sync with the newly added footage.

Our 2nd edit week schedule

Next we used 'Livetype' on a Mac to create our stylised titles (Inspired by those in 'Se7en' and 'Shutter Island's opening sequences) which we did by adding a 'stagger' effect to our titles and increasing the blur and thickness of the fonts. We transferred these over to the PC using a USB and then used the titles to replace our original, more basic titles.

The final change we made to our edit was grading the sequence. In order to fit the look of our inspirations, we desaturated the colour in every shot to make it seem less bright and more gritty. We also used colour correction to tone down the bright orange colour of the kitchen lights in several shots.