For this part of the process I decided to edit two of the three expertise. One was the paper folding and the other was not really an expertise at all but I thought it would be good practice to edit it. I didn’t really understand if I was doing the project right i thought it could only be three shots with no repeats and no more than two cuts. So I edited the protest footage in three shots and two cuts. I selected shots that made it feel like we are looking onto a policeman perspective from a distance. I wanted to create the effect as if the CFMEU rally is surrounded by police “everywhere they go”. By overlapping the field recordings of the chanting and its echo it kind of gives this feeling. To bridge the three shots together the audio was exponentially faded in and out over a long period so it didn’t seem too choppy. The chanting is panned out as the new focus is on the helicopter in the sky, then back to the ground where the music slowly rises as the policeman walks past the band truck. To then intensify the meaning in this project I tried out what it would be like if there was a song playing as the scene unfolds. The first song by A Man called Adam makes the whole event seem comical. The next one by Fatima Al Qadri Endzone is actually a song made from field recordings form the Wall street protests a few years ago. It makes the edit seem more intense with the slow beating drum and the alarm bells. Art of Noise Moments in love heightens the way we see the policeman who now seems ‘cool’. It feels like something is about to unfold. So with this expertise I was trying to show how music can heavily influence the way on screen images are interpreted.

The second expertise in the basement was also another experimentation. I did some fast cutting between shots so it was almost like watching a cooking show on TV. Having these cuts to such precise actions means its pretty hard to compressed which I attempted to do. In the end I toyed with reversing the shots. The first example shows the folding starting at the end and working forward. The second video shows the folding at the beginning but each shot is reversed; starting at the end of the shot and playing backwards. I wanted to test if it was still easy to follow such specific actions even when the time displaces the actions. The actions in this sequence were actually vital to the cutting because of continually.