Editing

Last week me and Ellie started editing our experimental film. We decided that we would start off with the woman in the archive footage talking about meat. When she says the word 'steak' we've rewound and repeated it several times. This is to show that our piece is about meat right from the start. We then added a few shots of the raw meat that we filmed.

For the atmos track we have decided to use a piece of music that sounds like it fits within a 50's housewife setting. We've made it so that the audio slows down and the pitch gets lower as the piece goes on. This makes the piece seem more dark as it progresses. We did this by importing the track into Pro Tools and changing the tempo. The reason we did this is because to get this effect you couldn't do it in the program we were using, Final Cut Pro.


We've also used archive footage of cows and layered over our own footage of cutting up meat and the sounds of knives being sharpened. This then shows the contrast between the live animals and the raw meat that the animal will eventually become. The reason we have done this is to make it seem quite uncomfortable to watch, therefore making it more interesting. We did this by lowering the opacity on the footage of the knives. This is so that the viewer can see both the animals and the meat being cut in the same shot.

Towards the end of the first minute we've sped up the pace a bit and used very fast cuts of our footage with the raw meat and also 50's adverts about beef and steak. We used the sounds of the knives sharpening to accompany these shots as we thought that it fit within the audio of the piece.

When we looked through what we had edited we noticed that the footage we had filmed ourselves was quite bright and the colours didn't look right. To fix that we used the 3-way colour corrector in Final Cut to lower the saturation and make the shadows a bit darker. This then gave our piece the desired effect and made it a lot darker, which is the look we were going for.