Editing - Scene Five (Part one)

Detective Carter goes to Bobby's house and meets Scarlett Jones.

We used an interesting camera angle at the beginning of this section, it was a very low establishing shot so the Detective walks past the camera and up to the house where the audience sees is shadow against the light of the window in the door - which gives him a very conventional Hero like feel to his character. We then used an over the shoulder shot of him knocking on the door - because we didn't want to knock on the actual door (as there was a sleeping baby in the house at the time of filming) we had to get the knocking sound onto the clip separately...we did this by again using the voice over tool as i operated the mac while Antonia knocked on the table in perfect sync to the clip. It looks really authentic to the clip which is exactly what we wanted.

One thing i really don't like about this section is the sound, unfortunately being outside at night time created a lot of background noise on the piece and you can only really hear Ed talking. We tried to solve the problem by turning up the volume but it just made the background noise worse, this is why we couldn't have any music over this section because the speech is hard enough to hear without more noise over the top.

What i do really like about the piece is the editing of the clips, it starts with a mid over the shoulder shot where the porch light creates some beautiful shadows across both the actors faces (especially the detectives hat) while they are speaking. It then cuts to a slightly closer side on shot of both characters - because the Detective has the height advantage he towers over Scarlett giving him the power in this scene, especially when he shows her that he has a gun. While he is waiting it cuts back to the shot from behind very neatly until he steps into the house and the picture fades out. I am really happy with how this scene looks as i was the main person behind the camera (which included me half standing in a spikey bush/tree for half the filming) - Me and Antonia worked hard to make the editing really sharp as we need it to be perfect because we knew the sound wasn't too great.