We soon realised shortly after commencing log and capture that we had too much footage. This I thought was better than having too little. Kay was chief editor and over Easter break she drew up a rough cut. Though there was still a lot to be edited it was exciting to see the film start to take its shape. It was hard to arrange editing times as the end of the year drew near and everyone had a fair amount of work to do. Kay did the bulk of the editing whilst the rest of us made time to help where we could. I mostly oversaw the editing; giving input where it was needed to help the story unfold. I tried to help by looking for music that we could use, however I didn’t find much that I thought would be usable, luckily other team members were more successful. The feedback for the rough cut was really helpful as they picked up on things we hadn’t noticed, it was useful to have an outsiders perspective on the film as we were all used to seeing the footage and the story. I am really pleased with the final cut, though it differs somewhat from what I first envisioned I feel that we made the best use of the material we had. The nightclub shots would have a made quite a difference but that was something out of our control.
We have now entered our film into the Strawberry Shorts film festival in Cambridge and await a response. It would be very gratifying if our film were selected for viewing at the festival. In the mean time, we are having our own viewing at the Little Theatre, it will be really exciting to see everyone’s films on the big screen and to see who’s is the most popular.
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