Today, Chris and I showed the class our 6 minute intro to the film that we have so far. After showing it, we got feedback from the class, a lot of which was helpful and that we are going to incorporate into our edit. The first comment was about the track in during the first scene. A lot of the class thought that it was a POV shot from Phillip's perspective because it is handheld and looks like someone is walking toward Jim. This is a valid point, and I think we are going to re-cut it so that the shot is acting at Phillip's POV. We had talked about this before, and Chris didn't see it as a POV shot. He wanted to see Phillip pop out from the staircase. But, since it is a handheld shot, most audience members are going to expect it to be a POV shot. We don't want to confuse the audience from the start, so we are going to rework the beginning on scene 1 and see if it works better as a POV shot.
Another important comment was about the jump cuts during the scene where Jim eats breakfast. The shots utilize match on action too much and it's confusing whether we are trying to intentionally jump cut, or if the editing is just done poorly. We need to make it more definitive and obvious that we are jump cutting while he eats, which we are doing to instill Jim's urgency to eat. We also may want to use less clips and make each one a little longer.
We are still working on the sound design and incorporating score, but it seemed like the class liked the breathing in the intro. I was unsure if it was too much to be going steady the whole time, but they seemed to think it worked. Faiza suggested increasing the volume as the intro sequence progresses. I want to try that and see how it works.
So far, we've had a good start and got some great feedback. We're going to have a lot of work ahead with sound design, though.
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