FMP project 'Endure' post production final

To begin the editing process we decided early on that we should split the editing up into three sections, so that we get it done faster and have an equal workload to go on, I was in charge of editing the hallway confrontation between Peter Quinn's character and Phil's, as well as acquiring all of the sound effects we would need for the film. Alex was in charge of editing the basement scenes, while Jordan was to edit the kitchen and bedroom scenes. I found editing the corridor scene quite challenging as there was a blatant issue with continuity that I had to try and avoid, in that someone put a bottle down on a stand behind Peter whilst were on a break halfway through the scene, no one noticed this when we got back to shooting and by the time we noticed it, it was far too late to do anything about it. Lighting was also an issue throughout, so when I had put the scene together I had to go over each shot and use RGB curves in order to adjust the colour and I had to make large adjustments to the brightness and contrast of each shot, this was just so that it flowed logically into the next scene; the kitchen, without them looking unnatural next to one another.

I was happy with how this edit came out, so I imported it over to the main editing computer to join the other edits, I was very happy with the fact that everyone's edits seemed to flow together nicely, even though everyone else encountered similar problems with continuity, Jordan's main problem was that during the bedroom scene a bottle of vodka falls on the floor, the mother then picks it up and secures the lid, but with certain takes the point at which the lid was secured varied, so Jordan had to do his best to edit around those points. In order to properly convey that the house was being bombarded and shaken by the event in the film we asked Brian for assistance in how to add the necessary effect, when he'd shown us It was then a simply matter of applying to all the scenes. When all of the edits were finalised and put together I got to work trying to colour grade some of the other scenes so that they would match up better to what I had done with the corridor, this didn't take very long and eventually all that was left to do was put the sound effects on.

I gathered multiple sound effects using the list of needed sounds that Alex put together. Sound effects such as inhuman screeches that we could overlay onto the basement scene to suggest that theres something strange stalking up above, we also needed lots of sounds of glass breaking and explosions to make the scene where Phil's character runs downstairs in fear much more believable. It was mostly a simple process putting the sounds on, however there was one section that proved much more difficult than anticipated, for the bedroom scene where Phil's character is woken up his mother hoovering the landing we needed to add the sound ourselves because we didn't actually use a hoover during the shoot because it may have messed with prompts for the actors and so on. This meant that we needed to make the sound effect seem as though it was coming from a different room, however at first we only succeeded in making it sound like an aeroplane, this was quickly resolved when we asked Brian how to do it.