Now that we've came to the stage of having rough edits of each one of our shorts, the time has come to finally combine them. I've been looking forward to this because I've always felt that this film would work at its best with all of it's pieces in place. When figuring out the time-line for the whole piece we realised that it wouldn't make sense to have our ending of 'The Lights', which takes place the next morning in the middle of our piece. I made the decision to tag it at the end of 'The Babysitter' so that it made sense within the time-line.
A big problem we found is that 'The Babysitter' was shot progressive and both 'The Hook Man' and 'The Lights' were shot interlaced which is a really annoying problem. As the interlaced footage is often leaving lines across the screen, depending on what device you watch it on. I'm disappointed Abby missed such a little thing because for the most part she's been a good camera op. I just hope we have time to fix it so it doesn't look so rough at the Vue Screening.
With all of the shorts in place we had a runtime of around 15 minutes which I was happy with. We thought originally it may end up being around 11, so it was initial surprise to find out it was running at 15. I feel there is still work to be done in the edit room to just put the finishing touches and polish off our final piece.
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