61. Editing Day 4

This session was replacing the clips I re-filmed and intercutting the book scene in between the bathroom shots. 

The book scene would start in the middle of the bathroom scene, when V drops the flower, to have a diegetic transition, so the only clips I could intercut was V washing her face and her calming down. This doesn't give much time to have the voice over of the definition, unless I read fast, or add time to the clips. I decided to remove a little bit of V looking through books, to move clips over and give me more time for the voice over. 

I showed a couple people the finished intercut section and they understood what was happening. That was mostly because of the clothes, the drastic environment change and the fact that the flower was now a petal with little blood now. 

There was another person who said that when I edit the audio for those scenes, I should have some audio differences as well, to really show the differences in time. I started thinking about having the past be quiet/no sound at all, because in the present, there will be music playing to represent V's heartbeat. It would also not be a faded out sound but instantly cut off from the other section. I'm hoping that gives a 'shock' to the audience, where they don't expect it and gain a new interest on what is going to happen. 

The intercut of the book scene is definitely my favorite. It has such a strong visual (and will have a different audio) contrast to everything else in the film. I went through different versions of the beginning of it, for the placement of the clips 

The first time seeing the intercut. V (past) picking the petal up in in between V (present) picking the flower up.

The same clip, without the intercut between V picking the petal up.

I was flipping between these two ideas for a while, before deciding to use the first version because it shows the comparison between the two times and how almost identical it is to the first time she discovers her disease.

After completing the entire section of the bathroom and book scene, I realized that V's emotions are opposite in the past and present. The past is V being confused to stressed (panicking when looking through the books) and the present is stressed to calm. There's not much meaning to this, but it's really interesting to see the difference in how V nw handles and hides her disease from others, since discovering it.