Finishing the Rough Cut (20/02/13)

After sending the file back to Lewis for him to review the work I had done on it, he got on with editing the one minute that I left between the middle and end of the film. He thought it would be a good idea to use the footage of Amsterdam as if the victim was dreaming of having a walk in Amsterdam, which is one of the lines in the script that the victim says.

Before showing the dream sequence, Lewis added some voiceover that made it look like the victim was falling asleep. He used the piece of dialogue where the man says 'I won't sleep tonight' and then used the 'tonight' part twice afterwards, to make it look like he was loosing concentration and falling asleep. I thought this was a really nice touch to the piece and I think it works really well.

After that, we added the dream sequence, using lots of different shots of Amsterdam and a shot of a highway at night as the train went past to slowly bring the film out of the dream and back to reality, eventually showing the empty corridor on the train. During the dream sequence we used a music track that was happy and possibly the type of music that the victim would enjoy, to show that he is looking forward to walking around Amsterdam.

Also during the dream sequence, Lewis used the close up of the cannibal's mouth as he slowly grins and opens it but he slow it down and added a blur to it to show that the victim may have seen this from his eyes but drifts back to sleep.

After this, the rough edit was done and ready to show in the next seminar to get feedback and a provisional grade for it. Overall, I am very happy with it and I'm looking forward to seeing what Chris thinks to it and any feedback that we will receive.