Editing.

After I had looked through all my footage and ensured that i was totally happy with it, I could finally was able to get on with my editing. I was a little bit apprehensive that I wouldn't have enough footage and also that it would take a really long time. I begin the editing my putting everything in order. I found this quite hard because I wasn't sure about how it would look because whilst filming I went away from my storyboard and begin to improvise. This is something that often happens, as i get more ideas as i go along. Once I had fiddled around  with the order and cut the clips down to the appropriate length I was finally clear with how my film would look. During the filming i ensured that i had a lot of different shots of similar things, so that i wasn't short of options. This became very useful during the editing process because I had plenty of different ways to portray what I wanted to. Whilst editing i had to cut a lot of shots right down and cut them so i could add them in later etc. This proved to be fairly time consuming, however i think it will be worth it in the end. Once everything was in place, I twinned it with my audio, which is eve reading a poem in an Irish accent and some music. Once this was in place it seemed to pull everything together and gives the tone of the film. It took about 4 hours to edit everything into my rough cut. Towards the end of the editing i realised that some of my audio seemed to have moved and cut itself, also the poem wasnt quite long enough. I had to fiddle with it for a long time, in order for it to make sense. I repeated  the first half of the poem then half way, cut through to the second half of the second clip. This made it sound more like an ending, this was difficult because i had to edit Eve's voice so that it sounded like she was just continuing, not that it was a random clip. Finally i managed to perfect my audio and i am incredibly happy with it. I realised that when I finished my rough cut, or thought i'd finished it, that it was only about 1 minute 20 seconds. Sir told me that this was to short. I struggled along trying to place other clips into my filming, however i wasnt happy at all with it. Ultimatley i decided that me being proud and happy with it is of equal importance. I got my teacher to watch it and see what he thought. Thankfully he gave me some great ideas. At home theres a home video of my mum all through her childhood, which was taken on sini-film at the time, then later transferred to VHS. Im going to try and film the television with the video playing. I know that of course the quality wont be perfect, but thats the kind of look i was going for. If i add short shots of the home video inbetween the running of the girl in my film. Also after watching my rough cut copious times, i realised that the constant running was a little bit mundane. Although at the time I did get other angled shots, I didnt really end up using them that much. So to improve it further I may get some shots from the floor of her feet running, this adds to the range of different shots and just makes the whole thing a lot more interesting. So during half term next week, those are the improvments i am going to make.