Post Production: Editing: Part 1

I am pleased to report that the major filming is over and Stay Inside is finished. A change in the physical space, where the disorderly living room is replaced with a digital workspace, a transition that is a major spatial inflection in the project development.Having spent a number of hours capturing tripod settings of the various exteriors and readjusting lighting to suit my monochrome outfit as well as those of my colleague who has been wearing contrasting clothes, I am glad that the raw footage is well captured and locked. 

This is a huge acquisition to my Cambridge portfolio, protecting the creative vision in my hard drive and allowing me to move out of the disorder of a live set to a discipline of post-production atmosphere. After going back to the empty living room, I am contented to see that all snack boxes, pizza boxes, and half-opened cups are all documented as desired. 

With the removal of the camera apparatus, now the editing stage, with which now the movie starts to take a structure of a complete story. My ultimate objective in this foundation phase of post- production is to organize the filming in a way that leaves the pacing natural and the development of tension natural. I have analyzed the extreme long shots of deserted landscape depicted and the different medium and over-the-shoulder shots of the characters and it is clearly observable that placing the quiet and empty exterior world and the ignorant and free slackers in opposition will raise a certain feeling of indecisiveness. 

    

It is one thing to film a scene in disjointed parts but it is a different thing to view those disjointed parts on a timeline and know how just a single cut can change the whole atmosphere. Now I am prepared to be involved with the technical side of it and see these raw files turn into a good thriller opening.