Editing has began!
All is going well so far, and with a week to go before submission, I'm confident that we will be able to produce a finished film that we are happy with. We have formed our basic structure;
forest-light art animation-paper room
and are now trying to put it all together in a way that actually works. The forest section is now all roughly put together and as it stands is pretty conventional. This was an issue at first considering that we are trying to make an experimental film. However, we think that actually, starting conventionally then moving to gradually less and less 'normal' stuff could work; it could mislead the audience and give our latter footage more momentum and impact. Another idea we had was to create a much more experiential soundtrack for this first third. Current thinking is that each third will have a different backing track.
The main issue I think we now face is putting all our footage together in a way that works well and does the ideas justice. Each individual scene I think will be good but moving between them is the key to making it a film... we don't want it to end up like Inglorious Basterds...
We also had a tutorial today in which we received good feedback, but as mentioned, the transition between scenes has to be really good. And, more importantly, so does the end.
This is something that, if I am honest, we haven't given too much thought. We intended to end with the female character waking up, but this does seem rather conventional. As we know, 'it was all a dream' isn't exactly the most original storyline. So this weekend is going to be spent thinking up the best ending to a movie ever.
