Grief

Production 1 was sort of a taster project within university, however it was our first major one, the boundaries were quite restrictive for this project as it was a chance for use to spend time to get to know each other in the class better as well as flesh out everyone's strengths and understand the direction we could all go in.

Grief was a massive learning curve for me and my group, we were awkward individuals, I believe this was to test our limits and see if anyone would come out as more of a leader figure. however I think against our own expectations we all came out of our figures and became vocal members of our three man band, we were honest with one another, highly resourceful and really came together as a three man crew and it came out relatively well for people who had scarce had to work with many other people.

I edited this film and I think this is the first case of an 'editors consciousness', as I like to call it, came about. Every project I had worked on during college before this had been directed, written and filmed by myself, and without realising I had taken care in continuity when doing it all by myself completely subconsciously, having practised

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editing and gaining and understanding of how shots fit together. During this film I didnt consider the fact people had maybe not edited before, I didn't even think that the awareness of continuity wasn't something that came to people subconsciously. Safe to say when I got the clips there were a lot of continuity errors throughout, whether it was props not being in shot for some shots and in for others or people appearing in better takes when they previously weren't there. I am arguably a better, more creative and more active and aware editor both in the cutting room (so to speak) and on set, as a result of this film.

One time I namely had to get a little creative was a scene on a river bank, there were two takes that were good for their own reasons, the first shot was better for the acting at the start, the second shot because the acting was better in the second half, the issue? the main characters brother is in the second shot! The context of the scene is the main character grieving, when an embodiment of his brother comes to give him advice, and I decided to play into this in order to be able to keep the better parts of acting, I added a cut away shot that, in a moment of clairvoyance, I had asked to get 'just in case' only to add the shot with the brother included afterward, a technique we had used previously and intentionally within the film to show that the brother was some sort of otherworldly apparition or figmant of the main characters imagination, and i think it worked well!