Editing - Scene Five (Part two)

Detective Carter first meets Bobby Dents as Scarlett is made to leave the room:

This scene begins with a shot of the fan in the room, i liked this shot because you could see a blurred view of Bobby in his chair on the mirror section of the fan. This then cuts to a clip of the Detectives feet as he walks up the stairs which then cuts to a close up of the door handle as he opens it. I edited and really like this section as i had a clear view of what i wanted to do with this section and i love the different clips. We also added music playing over the top of the clip which Antonia chose and i believe it really works well with the video, we had to slice the sound and fade it quieter when the actors started speaking because we didn't want the music to overwhelm the action. The main part begins with an establishing shot of Bobby at the desk as Scarlett walks past the camera and sits on the desk, it is obvious that he is the main focus as the camera never moves off of him - even when he tells her to leave..the camera stays on Ben as Antonia walks back past it. This is when it cuts to a close up of Bobby as he starts speaking directly to the detective, the cuts are long because we wanted the cuts to get faster as the action progressed. It then cuts to Detective Carters short monologue which we used a few different cuts and angles to piece together the sections that we wanted and it took us a long time to get it as sharp as we wanted it to be. We also zoomed in on the original footage in some parts just to get a few more interesting shots, However we had to be careful as the actor moves around a lot during his speech so we had to make sure if we zoomed in that he wouldn't step out of frame.


Things begin to get heated between Carter and Dents:
As the conversation between the Detective and Bobby gets more heated the clips become shorter and snappier to emphasise this. As you can see in the picture to the left there are some really nice shots from behind the Detective looking towards Dents. One bit i really like is where Bobby is counting down from five and the camera cuts to a different angle in the middle of it - but it does it so smoothly that the audience doesn't realise the change in clip. Also when the guns are brought out i chose specific angles for the camera - so you could look down the barrel of the gun. when the fighting starts the camera cuts to behind the Detective and then behind bobby so you can only see there guns which i really like. Also we had to put sound effects over the clip as we didn't have really gun noises, so w turned down the volume of the original footage and added gun shot sounds using the other mac and the voice over control. When Bobby gets shot it cuts to a clip of him falling into his chair (obviously wounded) - then when Carter is beating the information out of him we had to use another sound effect as we couldn't have the actors actually hitting each other in the scene. We imported these sound effects onto the computer and made sure the sound matched the timing of the action perfectly.

Cut to Change-over Scene:

After Bobby reveals it was Bonnie that was setting up the drug heist the scene cuts (using the cross fade tool) to a scene with her, the music fades back in as we turned down the original sound as we thought it would be more intense if you could only hear the music. It starts with Bonnie walking across in front of the camera, then cuts to her walking up the a mysterious man from behind the camera. This works well as you never get to see his face, and she actually seems to acknowledge the camera at the end which makes the audience be directly linked to the character as she is looking smugly straight at them while they do the changeover.

Cut Back to Carter:

The camera cuts back to Carter at this point with the music fading down so the audience can hear what the character is saying. We did want to add slightly more on the end however we just didn't have time to film everything so we left it with just this last line ''Chester get him to the hospital, I've gotta get after that bitch" - this was done with a close up of the Detectives face as you can see the pain and anger very clearly. As in the first section we then used the ripple effect at the end as it cuts back to him sitting at his desk...like at the beginning so the whole movie was like a flash back. This I think works very well to suit this specific genre of film - but also makes it unique and more innovative than other films as we have not just copied the story line of a real film noir.