Editing session №2

As planned we started today's session by trying to figure out how to stitch the footage of the bathroom scene. It didn't take us long to decide to insert a close-up on Juls turning the tab on between the shot where she enters the bathroom and where she takes her glasses off. We then developed everything according to our action list and storyboard. We stitched together the close-up on Juls grabbing the towel, the mirror shot of her drying the face, the mid and over-the-shoulder shot of her taking the pills and the POV shot of the trash bin. 

We then had to put some room items close-ups, implying that Juls is changing to her school clothes in the meantime. There were quite a few nice shots we took, but we only selected the ones with a slight movement in it (e.g. a tilt/pan but not static shots). More to that we made a decision to not add the close-up on the flowers on the windowsill due to the fact that it is static and has cold lighting instead of the warm one we have in almost all the other shots. It would just look odd if the lighting change between the close-ups and make the scene seem abrupt. 

Subsequently, we started putting together the next part, where Juls walks out of the bathroom in the school clothes already. We started with a wide shot, then added a mid mirror shot of her fixing her hair, followed it by two mid shots: to her legs, as she is approaching her bag and to the bag from another angle, when she puts her pencil case inside it. After that we decided to return to a wide shot (while she takes the box out) and put an over-the shoulder shot of Juls looking for the necklace. 

By the end of the lesson we realised two things:

1. We forgot to put the following back shot of the fake mother approaching the door

2. Our sequence is already 2.03 minutes long, which means that we will have to shorten it during the next sessions.

I'm more than happy with the progress we've made so far, however during the next lesson we will need to try and shorten the sequence in order to make its duration less than 2.15 minutes total.

This is what we created so far: