Editing 07/11/12

  As the director, I have decided to help Hannah with the editing throughout the whole process. From what we have worked on today, I have found that this works well as we are able to discuss what works and vice versa. Hannah would edit the shots and I would give her feedback and tell her what I would like to include in the next section. I think that we worked well together and listened to each others ideas, agreeing on most of them.

  Today, we completed a rough cut of the film, by including these components:

• Creating the main focus on Lola building the den.
• Cutting and adding fades to the long sequence of Lola placing down her teddies (this was initially shot for the purpose of a time lapse but we felt that what we did worked better).
• Hannah felt the teddy sequence was still too long so we decided to incept sections of this with Lola placing the pens down in a perfect line.
• Added fades to show time progressing.
• Colour correcting.
• Adding the title.

  Lola's den symbolises her 'own world' and keeps her isolated from everyone on the outside. With the main emotion being loneliness, I wanted to capture this through having the main focus of her building the den. Showing that she wants it to be perfect. The use of silhouettes will be repeated at the beginning and end of the film, representing a full circle - the fact that things never change for Lola and she is constantly trapped in her surroundings.

  

  Because the location we shot the film in was indoors, Myself and Jen booked out a Kino and Dedo kit. This formed a warm tone and intimate atmosphere to the overall film and I think it worked well. However, some of the shots did not include as much of the lighting so Hannah had to colour correct.

  We added the title to the piece by making it look as though it was beneath Lola's hands when she smooths out the sheet. I think this worked well as it incorporated an interesting visual element into the film. 

Overall, I think we had a successful day of editing. Alhough the initial construction of footage amounted to about 10 minutes, Hannah managed to cut this down to 3 and still include all of the elements I wanted in our piece. After some more cutting, it us now 2 minutes long and has more pace.

Tomorrow, we plan to add both the sound Jacob recorded on the day and his other foley to our piece, as well as a soundtrack that will add to the films emotions.