Paul and I talked through my second shooting and editing of ‘that’s my jam’ today. The thing I discover the is how to transfer the message to audience in a better way and how to make a comedy more comic. In post-production, we could only deal with the clips we shoot before, so we usually need to shoot more than planed to give a bigger room of changing in post-production. In editing, the editor is aware of what is happening, what will happen next, however audience know nothing until they see it, and audience has a short memory of what they are watching, so you need to give them signals of what is happening. For example when Tan is dancing, Phoebe walks in and watching him, finally Tan found himself watched. In this shoot, I have a cut of Phoebe watching at the end, this would makes audience wonder when she comes in, audiences becomes a bit confused, and is she watching Tan. So to avoid this, I should have a cut of Phoebe watching or even walks in and watch while Tan is dancing, before he finds himself get caught. To make it more comic, I can even have Phoebe walks in earlier while Tan is looking around. To do so, I need to make the frame more tight, and choose a suitable background-make audience don’t know where Phoebe is. Then Phoebe appears in the same frame with Tan while he is looking around.(only the background matches and their eyesight angle, never look at the camera) Also, audience needs more details, what is a character doing, they don’t miss any details. For example, when Tan is opening music, he hit his phone twice, I don’t have a shot of the screen, then audience would wonder why he hits phone twice, what is on the screen. And comic never ends in a close-up.

Another thing I learned is getting ORGNIZED

What I can do is establish a big project, every time I did a scene, make a bin for it, like that’s my jam, room scene, stair scene… In thes bins, put all the footages, music and sequence. When editing, if I need to do a second editing, never do something on the first sequence, duplicate the first sequence, then rename it as sequence 2, then I can do anything on without being worried because I still have the first sequence. In this way, I can always look back what has changed in the second editing, make some progress, discover different ways.