Final Edit

After consolidating our resources me and Sam came together to create a final edit that we will use for the final project. We began by looking at what we had both done and seeing what we both liked and disliked. Sam mentioned that he likes the editing that I had done for some of the scenes like the boy leave the house as well as how I put the ending together. However he didn't like how I had only really used hard cuts. We compromised and included the best parts of each other's work.

Sam quickly taught me the basics of how to use Sony Vegas Pro before getting started. I found it slightly more easy to use than Premiere. After a quick tutorial we pieced the footage together into the order we wanted before fine tuning the timings and transitions. We felt that it was important to vary the transitions so that they would be interesting visually.

Something that we did a lot more than I expected was use colour correction to get scenes to look exactly how we wanted, for example the first scene of the boy walking up the street is made to be much bluer than it was originally. We did this because we wanted the scene to appear to be a lot gloomier than it was when we filmed. We made sure that we didn't add so much blue that it looked unrealistic. Another big example of how we ended up using colour correction was when it came to editing the night scenes when the boy leaves his home. Since it was very dark outside the camera struggled to get decent footage. To fix this we had to raise the brightness of the scene as well as increase the saturation slightly. We did these two things in order to make objects more visible as well as make the colours pop more since they originally appeared very muted and washed out.

After the colour editing we polished what we could and tried to find creative ways to change each scene, for example, there is a scene where the boy is approaching the castle ruins. We slowed the scene down to half speed. We did this because without it we thought that the establishing shot passed too quickly.