Major Project: Post-Production: Tim Bentham Feedback & Fine Cut of DownStage

Introduction

Likewise to my 'Rough Cut 2' blog post, we recently had an editor called Tim Bentham come to our university, who looked and helped us with the post-production with our projects. Therefore, Kate and I showed him our up to date version of DownStage - similar to the one we last showed Simon however slightly more updated. Below are the notes we made back given Tim's feedback:

Tim Bentham Feedback Notes

All in all, this feedback session was very helpful, as you can work out from the amount of notes we've taken. These notes generally taught me how you can make an edit flow much easier and seem much tighter by taking out all unnecessary pieces of dialogue and action which don't actually have an effect on the narrative. For example, something simple such as not having the need to show Giles and Alex walking onto stage in Scene 2, to cutting down unimportant parts of an interview, so instead they seem much shorter and snappier.

Fine Cut Draft

After taking in all this information from both Simon and Tim, below is a fine draft cut of DownStage. As you can see, Tim's perspective of tightening and shortening scenes has led DownStage to go from 32 minutes to 25 minutes, which only cuts out two scenes. Nonetheless, with only a couple of weeks left to go, its safe to say that the narrative structure is unlikely to change now, and I will now be focusing more on sound engineering and colour grading.