In class I utilised Ed to assist in editing and to use him as a test audience for the content I had already begun to assemble. I find that I lack the attention to detail that is required to be a successful editor and I often find that I struggle to pass my cutting and a scene as a whole. Due to this today was valuable in that I had fresh pair of eyes that were removed from the project to provide me with advice and to ensure that each of my vignettes made scene and were interesting to watch.

Relationship: Ed was incredibly helpful in tightening a number of cuts in this vignette, particularly the couple of shots in which Ben enters and leaves the shot. Without a lot of experience editing I struggled to pass this correctly and with Ed’s help I was able to polish some issues. I found it intriguing that Ed also didn’t feel that Ben and Bel appeared to be couple, as Robin had. I believe that this wasn’t a fault of the acting but rather of my direction. I also feel that Ben’s stage acting is far more powerful than his screen acting and that maybe his performance has yet to be tailored for filmed rather than presented on a stage. Ed also wasn’t a huge fan of the narration that I situated at the end to explain the scene to the audience. Ed would prefer this subtext to weaved in the scene itself but unfortunately a rescript/reshoot was out of the question. I also believe that because my narration was going to reoccur in other vignettes that it provides an authorial voice to the piece and helped to situate its theme within my central idea around Perception.

Brother: I had yet to show much of this sequence to others and I was somewhat unhappy with the result. Ed’s main critique of the sequence was that it appears my character was just hard of hearing. At this stage though I have yet to add the full audio so I hope that this ensures the themes are conveyed. Once again Ed believed there was worth in the sequence but thought that a reshoot would have ensure that the ideas were conveyed more concisely.

Overall, I was pleased to have another set of eyes critique what I have captured thus far. It was helpful to discuss alternative ways of covering the scenes I had shot and how to potentially assemble aspects of the Booth interviews I had captured.