Editing - Day 3

Today was a far more successful day in the editing suite. We immediately addressed our fight scene in order to try to catch up with what we deleted the previous day. It is here that we realised that it is unnatural to have too many fast cuts in a 30 second scene. It got to the point where these cuts were becoming disorienting to the audience. We discovered that the fast cut-together sections were more effective when contrasted with one or two shots that are held for a longer. We tried to choose these shots when the dialogue was most intense and then use fast cuts on movement. This also helped with disguising any theatrical fighting mistakes. We managed to get a lot of work completed in the session and have almost completed our fight scene. This is the real challenge and we anticipate the rest of the edit should run smoothly after this.