Editing So Far

So far, editing has gone successfully. We have most of our footage edited and our voiceover is completed. There have however, been a few changes to our original idea. We wanted to do things such as make the teddy walk in stop frame or throw up but we couldn’t because it proved hard when it came to filming. We also wanted to do some focus pulls on the camera but because we were using a standard compact camera, we didn’t have the option of doing so.  The person we intentionally wanted to be the voice of our teddy later changed to another person as we came to a joint conclusion Alex’s voice matched the character of our teddy well. We changed the intro of our short film from outside to indoors as we would have had continuity issues; the teddy would appear outside the suddenly be indoors. We felt this didn’t work well. We needed to reshoot due to lack of footage, when we were filming we were convinced we had enough photographs but because our whole short film is in photographs, we should have thought through how much pictures we would need more thoroughly. When we are able to edit again, we will continue to finish our short film by filling in any gaps, adding a sound track and making titles and credits. Over the Christmas holidays we will take the time as an opportunity to take more photographs.