Saturday, 10 May 2014

Re-Editing to new Structure

Re-editing to the new structure was more of a shuffling process then re-edit as each scene would still be a scene in a sense it just may be swapped out of order and timings in-between changed to allow the voiceover in.

As Allis wasn't present for any of the VO recordings I had to step in an assist Hannah with second opinions on takes and while recording we would bounce ideas of each other about different ways that the lines could be said so that Hannah had a variety to pick form in her edit. Once they were recorded, Hannah went through her recording and sent me over a version of each VO labeled against the corresponding line on the script so that we were both clear as to the order. As Alli was also not present for the re-edit Hannah sat with me and helped work out where best to place them and how long the voice over would overlay the scenes and the timings. I think it was good to have Hannah there to help at this stage as she would be the one adding in the voice over in the sound edit so by getting her input at this stage it would minimise the amount of alterations that would have to do once I hand over the edit.

The first 6 minutes were fairly simple to re organise. I had to add in freeze-frames at the start and then reverse the start to play through again. Hannah decided that she preferred a different song for the split screen driving scene so I had to re organise the timings of the split screen to fit the new tempo of the new song.

To get the exact timings of the song Hannah exported the first couple of minutes out of Protools and sent it over to me to sync the timings of the cuts up to. Once I had done this I re-exported out the edit to hand back over. Somewhere in this process a majority of the shots had become out of sync. After both me and Hannah spent a while trying to figure out where a couple of frames had gone from I decided to reimport the QT that Hannahs sound was synced too and conform this against my timeline to see where exactly it had changed. I did this by overlaying and then using a simply split screen so that they played next to each other. It turned out that there was a couple of shots that had been a couple frames out but due to this process it was easy to figure out where and by how much it was out.  I then re exported it out to Hannah with the newest timings that matched the original QT and this seemed to be in sync.



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