Edit Progress

Editing was quite easy due to us using long takes. The tape footage playing on the television at the beginning had to be filmed in order so we could film it directly from the camera plugged into the TV, meaning we did not have to edit any of the tape footage. We colour graded the footage to be much warmer, giving the ending a dramatic sunset colour and adding to the film’s red and yellow colour scheme.

The most difficult part to edit was the final scene. It was paced slowly and had no dialogue, as well as telling a lot of the story. We cut out as much as we could, going for less cuts and longer takes to focus on the performance and set the pace. Initially we had hoped to reveal Madison as a hallucination by using a two shot with her in and then not after cutting back, but we decided to cut this and convey it more subtly. We experimented with different editing techniques such as making the footage jump slightly during the ending scene, which makes the viewer question the reality of the scene, making it more alike the previous scene shot on tape which pauses and fastforwards. Feedback for the rough edit was mostly positive and helpful, and looked at changed some cuts after showing it.