Bridgetown

Bridgetown was the longest form content I have worked on so far. This was a project that entailed us making a school drama Pilot episode, inspired by Waterloo road.

I was at first co editor on this piece because of the size of it, it seemed too much for someone to take on in such a short amount of time, I was assigned to one of the two directors and tasked with editing their scenes alone. during this project I worked close with the director for the first time ever, having not in the past few projects I felt a lack of clarity between me and the director and cinematographer would lead to more continuity errors and then arguably more unnecessary work for me in post, this worked out well as there were barely any when it came to cutting up. one scene I'm particularly proud of is the heist scene, when I got the script and read the heist section I had a vision instantly of how I wanted to edit this, and communicated this to

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the director who shared my vision.

We were aiming to make the heist scene in sort of an Edgar wright style, fast paced action and cuts, whip pans, close ups the lot, however this needed a well orchestrated plan, alongside the Director and Cinematographer, in order to make sure the heist scene would work and wouldn't fall flat because of avoidable mistakes. This was a new kind of symbiosis with the two of them that I had never considered before and I enjoyed being able to express and work out the feasibility of certain shots when brought to the edit. I needed them to help keep track of continuity and they needed me to explain my ideas for an edit so they could work out how to shoot each and every shot.

Despite this productive start we were struck by disaster when my co-editor had to step back from the project due to personal matters. This as you may have guessed left me as the sole editor of the project as people were already spread too thin with other projects at the time to aid me out, so I took on the challenge of editing a half an hour pilot with minimal turnaround time. I was lucky to have a good crew around me who whenever free would watch what I had done and add short hand notes for me to work on. This project was the biggest testament to my ability to work under pressure and gave me a massive confidence boost in my ability to make work to a high standard even in dire circumstances, I was able to turn around and work on notes rapidly and I am beyond proud that I was able to get this project done with time to spare at the end before sound mixers worked on the project.

After the project was done I got the opportunity to try a colour grade in Da Vinci Resolve properly without the pressure of a looming deadline to lessen the quality of the grade. I found the program in depth and intuitive and found often times less is more in the way of a colour grade, above is that colour graded version.