Editing Trick of the Dark

The hole crew of Trick of the Dark including me have been given a week extension, so that we can get this film finished. I have worked on the edit since getting this news though so i will be talking you through that. When i was looking back at the footage i was really unsure how i was going to make a film with it as it was only 4 scenes, originally it was suppose to be all the cave scenes and then the hospital scene, but as i had really no way of making the cave scene match up and the scenes in between where missing o decided to put the hospital scene at the beginning so while my director was at a meeting i edited the film so that instead of the cave stuff looking like a story that is being told, they now looked like flashbacks and then i would cut back to the hospital after every scene. When my director got back he loved the edit and was shocked that i had somehow made a narrative film out of what they had shot. There where obviously some problems, where scenes rather didn't have working audio so that i had to use the scratch audio from the camera or where audio was never recorded in the first place. My director had set up a session for the cast to do some ADR, so i exported the clips that needed replacement audio for them, unfortunately when i got the ADR back most of it was unusable as they had had the actors way to close to the microphone meaning you could hear way to much of there mouth movements, I did place it into the scene, but when me and the director watched it back we both decided that the scratch audio worked a lot better.This means that the only part of ADR in the film at this moment is in the ending scene, where they are presenting a children's show, this is because i didn't have the option of using scratch audio for this as it was never recorded. To make the audio sound a bit smoother i added a wild track that i had found on the internet of cave sounds, i did also want something like this for the hospital scene, but couldn't find the right track. The last thing i did on this day of editing was mess around with colour correcting as some of the shots where filmed in a blacked out studio and others where filmed in the cave.I think i managed to get these shot to match up well, but there is discussion about giving the clips to our colour correction expert to see what he can do with them.

This is a similar sound effect to the one i used, this is just obviously a lot longer.

These are three close ups that i colour corrected the top two where filmed in the studio and the bottom was filmed in the cave, apart from the fact that you can see the cave in the background of the first one i think that i have made the lighting match up pretty well.