Scene 37 Edit

Scene 37 from the film "Watching and Waiting" proved to be quite a challenge to edit. There were many obstacles in the footage that was given to be edited.

One of the scenes where the main character, Katherine, gets up to meet Dickie has quite a number of different takes. Each take has one thing or the other wrong with it. For example, in one of them you see the sound pack on the back of Katherine as she walks over to Dickie. And in another, as she walks over to Dickie, we see the boom in shot through a high up mirror on the wall. This was quickly rectified by cutting to the reverse-shot of Katherine coming over just before the boom came into shot.

There was also a problem with one of the actors dialogue. Dickie's dialogue changes in nearly every shot of him and the reverse-shots of Katherine. This proved to be quite arduous as the script had to be consulted several times and many changes had to be made before a compromise for the conversation could be found. Simply, different cuts had to be made and some dialogue had to be cut out for continuity and for the flow of the editing.

This time round in scene editing, sound didnt prove problematic at first. After finishing my edit and uploading it, I realised you can hear the slight jump in the levels differences on every different take.

After looking back at the edit, there a number of things that could be changed for the better. There are a couple of shots which are cut either slightly too quickly or linger for the tiniest bit too long. There was also some difficulty in cutting together the part where Katherine turns around looks at the targets, then cut to her turning back towards Dickie. This proved to be difficult as Dickie's dialogue altered between shots making it hard to cut it.

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