Construction 6: Reflections on Edit Week 2

Similarly to our first week of editing, we thought it necessary to create a schedule to organise when each of us would work on the project.

Following our back-up shoot, we needed to replace our old footage with the new shots. Once this was done, the rest of our time was spent polishing our sequence and grading each shot.

Grading is a very long and tedious task, but nevertheless necessary. Our approach to grading was to create the best look for the most difficult shot to grade, which ended up being a long-shot. From here, we graded each of other shots in reference to the long-shot so that we had a similar look throughout our sequence. Some shots were difficult to grade as we had taken them in different shoots, meaning there were slight variations in lighting. But by the end of the grading process, we had managed to achieve the style we were hoping for in each of our shots.

The shot on the left is the original, whereas the
shot on the right has been graded

We also added transitions between the sound tracks so that the atmospheric sound flowed more naturally. 

Unfortunately, there was an issue with one of our shots. We forgot to shoot the death of one of our two thugs, so we were forced to use the shot from our main shoot. This means that there were unavoidable continuity errors with his t-shirt and hair.

Reflections
I am happy with the progress we have made during the second week of editing. All of our shots have been graded, although there are some that look slightly different due to the lighting from our earlier shoots. However, we would not have time for this as these shots would have to be graded using masks, which is both complicated and time-consuming. Another It is also unfortunate that we were unable to reshoot the shot above as our actor was away for the week. Nevertheless, we achieved a lot during this week.