One Shot Short Film - Editing the finished piece & Final Views

Editing the final piece, in hindsight, was relatively easy. We all still have much to learn when it comes to Adobe Premier but I felt that what we did learn in that relatively short period of time still made for a reasonable edit of the film.

We attempted to edit the film in the 3 hour session, however, the University computers were a little too slow to do anything too demanding, taking 40 minutes to render a 4 minute video. This resulted in me taking the a copy of the video home, having captured it, and editing it there as it took just under 3 minutes to render on my desktop.

We had already decided that blur/double vision style effects would be used on the video to give the effect of someone relatively ill slowly diminishing in condition and that a fade out/zoning type sound effect would be a good choice for some parts of the video to simulate other types of symptoms. So using this I just through in some effects here and there to make it more realistic, dropped in some closing credits and a title screen and left it like that. Hopefully when I get time at a later date I will do some more in depth editing as I felt there was more I could have done.

If I had slightly more time and a wider knowledge of Premier I had hoped to add some sort of blinking simulation to the camera to really capture the humanistic qualities. I didn't feel music would have been appropriate given the seriousness of the film, despite have a little light-humour, so I did not add a backing track. However, I did spend one evening looking for some hospital ambiance effects, though unfortunately I found nothing that really impressed me.

If I was to do the film again I would spend a little more time on the planning because, although we did meet up outside lecturers, we could have gone into more detail with the story and with props used, and possibly had a better location for the filming. I enjoyed working with my group, with every inputting something to the film - though some more than other - I felt we worked well as a team, all listening, discussing and responding to each others ideas. We all shared the same light-hearted humour towards doing the film and generally had a lot of fun doing it. I would quite like to do something like this again in the future and hopefully more stuff like this will give me a better idea of which path I'd like to select next year.