This week Taylor and I were preparing to present our second 4 minute rough cut.  For this cut we included the living room study argument, Emma’s run, Nate talking to Kathy on the phone, and the kidnap sequence.  Continuity gave us some issues, as with all narratives.  We tried to go through the footage with the script supervising notes and color highlight the good takes.  This way, we could easily locate the best performances, and try to find ways to continuously edit those.  When that was impossible, we looked in the non-highlighted footage.

Sound-wise, we haven’t really done too much yet.  We did put audio filters on Kathy’s telephone dialogue though, and we tried to make sure to use the pen tool at least on the ins and outs of the sound clips so that it wouldn’t be so jarring.  We still need to go back and adjust levels overall, I noticed in particular that the scene where Emma bangs on the front door of the apartment yelling for Nate is pretty loud.

I think that things are coming along very smoothly, we only have a few more scenes to add onto the end.  I really liked the suggestion that we had in class this week about moving the title sequence until after the first scene, I never even thought about doing that.  The plan is to keep getting the image and dialogue roughly laid out, and then go back and fine tune the entire movie as a whole using the in-class and producer critiques.  Then we will add foley and music.  I think that we are staying on track and we are trying to get as much done as possible in a timely manner so that we won’t have a lot to do at the end of the semester.