A long time ago, I heard this quote from an editor “cut until you can’t cut anymore”. Ever since then, I’ve took that advice and cut out every part of the video which I thought was redundant, but this raises a perfectly good question, how do we know when to cut? When do I jump from A role to B role and when do I get back? To be perfectly honest , I don’t really know the answer to that, but I can explain my decisions on cutting with this experimental film.

For my editing, I divided my whole folder into 4 separate sequences. The first being my actress being in the bathroom, second of her in her room looking at the computer, third was her and her boyfriend and fourth would be her in the bathtub crying. I arranged it in this order so I could customize the videos individually without having to mess up my timeline. This in result helps me save time and ease the rendering process for my computer.

The only one issue that I have here is color grading the footages. Since they were all in different sequences, to get a consistent colour tone throughout the video became a challenge. To overcome this problem, I created multiple adjustment layers, renaming all of them with “W, for warm and C, for cold”. By using these tools provided by Premiere Pro, I was able to keep the consistency of my film. I opted to go with the warmer tone for my film because it feels much more intense and depressing. The increase in saturation give the film a much harsher look, making it seem more depressing.