Blog Post #44- The process of shortening the D.L entering James's house clip

 When footage is filmed, sometimes too much film is recorded which makes the director need to shorten the clip in order to make the film more attention grabbing and to make all the clips fit into the film. I had to do this with my clip of D.L entering James's house because of the strict 2 minute limit of my opening scene. I did this in order to be able to fit all my clips into the 2 minute requirement of the opening scene to my film. Below this is the original footage of this scene.


The first thing that I did was cut out a part of D.L slightly moving his head near the door handle to show the audience that he was looking at the door handle. I removed this from the clip because I felt that this was unnecessary to include in my film.

The next thing that I did was use an editing technique called a time skip. What I did with this technique was that I removed some of the footage of D.L walking to the kitchen and replaced it with D.L starting to walk to the kitchen, and then when a transition occurs he is shown in the kitchen. I did this in order to save time in my film that can be used for other, more impactful clips. This editing technique is very useful in saving time because the audience can just fill in the parts that were cut out of the scene in their mind. Below is the clip after my revisions (as shown in Blog Post #42).


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